I think I understand the rationale behind this fairly well, and find it sensible to a certain degree. With that said, I find a particular part of your explanat

I think I understand the rationale behind this fairly well, and find it sensible to a certain degree. With that said, I find a particular part of your explanation more intellectually dishonest than the anal probe comment. That's not to say you're being flippant as perhaps that commenter was. To claim that you're not using this data in terms of surveillance is utterly nonsensical. If you can demonstrate to me how you're not actively conducting surveillance, I'm open to hearing it. Privacy trade offs may provide measurable gains, but I've yet to come across even attempts at quantifying the loss of individual privacy. You can show asymptotically improving trends, but the costs seem to remain blank, unknown, and I think that is what our flippant friend was trying to get at.