>paranoid Is it really paranoïa when this is already the case ? Google's entire business is based around getting your data and selling it to advertisers. More

>paranoid Is it really paranoïa when this is already the case ? Google's entire business is based around getting your data and selling it to advertisers. More and more startups and companies offer a "free" service in exchange for your personal data which they sell back. Hekl, half of HN probably already works in a startup whose business model is exactly that. You have absolutely no say in how your data gets used. You also have no guarantee that AT&T actually respect your choice. Sorry for not being OK with my personal information getting passed through fifty servers around the world for various advertising companies. In the case of AT&T it's even worse because they have a monopoly on the medium: you don't get to choose where your data passes through when calling someone. At least Internet allows people to run µMatrix, RequestPolicy and others, limiting the amount that gets sent through.