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Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we'll still track you

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Re: Not just google

"This fear that people have about every app doing dodgy things is getting out of hand..:"

"Fear"?

Some people call it "experience" and if the commenter is naive enough not to realize what actually happens to the data collected, he's dangerously naive. There is only one reason for any application to collect anything and it's always the same: Money.

..."it's almost becoming a witch hunt - it's completely obvious why your banking app would like access to your list of contacts."

Yes, they will sell it to anyone who wants to pay anything for it. That's obvious and observed reality: It's money for them and almost all of it pure profit, the effort to collect the data is basically zero.

Now tell us why a corporation/app maker wouldn't take free profit every time it can?

Is there ever such a situation?

Anyone believing in "corporate honesty" is just dumb, in my opinion. Corporation has only one goal and it's money. Unless there's legal cost surpassing the profits for selling all of the data, all of the data will be sold. Every time, in every company.

When the state (=NSA) says it's totally legal to spy on your digital footprint all the time, the flood gates are open for corporations for doing the same thing, for profit. And yes, there's a lot of profit to made when cost of data collection is practically zero.

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