That's where you bump up against copyright problems. For example anyone who composes a book or an opinion piece in the New York Times is obtaining data/informat

That's where you bump up against copyright problems. For example anyone who composes a book or an opinion piece in the New York Times is obtaining data/information and publicizing it for profit. If you're going to argue that publishers of information don't/can't own the substance of their publication, how does one make a claim to the rights of what one has published? I would think GPS software operates on the same principle. The bank cannot directly sell your location information but they can disclose it to financial partners, likely for some financial quid pro quo. If you read the contracts on the You have to manually opt out by way of mail. I'm assuming Google does the same thing.