> As if this hasn't been something that businesses have done since the dawn of business. What!? Can you tell me an example of how businessmen sold customer dat

> As if this hasn't been something that businesses have done since the dawn of business. What!? Can you tell me an example of how businessmen sold customer data in the Victorian times? Unless, your definition of the 'dawn of business' is limited to this century or your lifetime? There is nothing inherently evil with data, it's what these today's businesses do with it and at this scale. There has never been a platform with over 1 billion users' data for sale. This has only happened in the last 20 years. You don't seem to have a very good understanding of the topic you are commenting on. In both your original and this comment, you make incorrect and face-value assumptions of how things work.