Literally no one is being coerced. No one. And this redefinition of words is what makes the article really bad. If she is referring to holding the personal dat

Literally no one is being coerced. No one. And this redefinition of words is what makes the article really bad. If she is referring to holding the personal data hostage as coercion, user is always free to leave Google properties while retaining most of their data. Google has one of the best data export tools that include documents, email archives etc. So that's straight out misinformation. see: Google Takeout.