> You can choose to not give away your data by not using those services. This is just plain wrong. There are privacy violating services where people are not gi

> You can choose to not give away your data by not using those services. This is just plain wrong. There are privacy violating services where people are not given a choice. I don't have a Facebook account, but they bought tons of data about me from brokers and used to it to create a shadow profile that they continuously update using any scrap of information on me that they can find including what they can get out of the conversations held by my friends and family members who do have facebook accounts. What choice did I have in any of that? Critical services and even government websites force you to hand information over to privacy hostile companies. You can't even go to irs.gov without pinging Google's servers, allowing them to collect data on you. Sorry, but "never use the internet again" isn't really a viable option and as long as you use the internet your data will be taken from you without your consent, or even your awareness. Choice, isn't really a factor.