It has become quite clear that user data is the goldrush that the majority of the world's biggest tech companies are feverishly mining. Whether they sell it tod

It has become quite clear that user data is the goldrush that the majority of the world's biggest tech companies are feverishly mining. Whether they sell it today (advertising) or not is the smallest concern compared to a myriad of society-harming ways that it could be used in the future. A company like MS could sit on your data for a decade and then decide that can get away with far more data abuse than they could today. It seems like a good bet that the ways that our data can be used will continue to expand. We probably can just watch the tea leaves of China to see what our data use future looks like. How long will it be until we have a social credit system like China's? >actually discuss how it violates their privacy The privacy violation is the collection itself.