> Why does everyone devolve into the same 'X entity is nefarious and they are trying to build a database to sell' or for x machine learning. Because there's m

> Why does everyone devolve into the same 'X entity is nefarious and they are trying to build a database to sell' or for x machine learning. Because there's many recent examples of companies building databases to sell and a lot of companies are harvesting data for machine learning? I'm sorry if I'm coming across as glib or rude, but these aren't theoretical exploits. This company has apparently collected data on hundreds of thousands of people and raised millions of dollars; I don't think they deserve a ton of benefit of the doubt. Edit: changed "long history" to "many recent examples"