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Discussion on: What extend it is "OK" to be tracked?

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Akash Kava • Edited

Its not that people don’t care, most people do not know that’s why they don’t care. And there isn’t strict laws to enforce such privacy.

All laws are created in such way that smaller companies can’t do same to make big money that threatens business of large companies. Large companies get away easily.

And people like you and me do care but we can’t communicate with everyone if we lock ourselves out and we can’t educate all the people how they are used as Guinea pigs to fed false data.

Most advertising platforms offer advertising based on house hold income, i was shocked how they collected and derived that information. GMail reads all credit card transactions/online shopping transactions and knows how much an individual is earning. It’s scary.

Only strong laws to separate data companies (companies that provide free software in exchange of harvesting data) could be treated not as software and tech company and they would need special license to operate just like how tv, news companies needs.