I feel there should be limits to what and when services like Gmail can collect data. It's not about trust or EULAs, the average user doesn't care anyhow, but that doesn't make it right.
The average person doesn't care about trade laws, still we have trade laws.
What I want to say is, in an ideal world the state would correctly regulate these companies, for multiple reasons. (I put emphasis on correctly, for lack of a better word, to underline how easy it is to get this wrong: the most benign example I can think of are the poorly formulated EU's cookies laws, which resulted in the biggest regress in the history of usability, without a single gain - which is what happens when people that learned to use a computer at 60 are doing internet-related laws)
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I feel there should be limits to what and when services like Gmail can collect data. It's not about trust or EULAs, the average user doesn't care anyhow, but that doesn't make it right.
The average person doesn't care about trade laws, still we have trade laws.
What I want to say is, in an ideal world the state would correctly regulate these companies, for multiple reasons. (I put emphasis on correctly, for lack of a better word, to underline how easy it is to get this wrong: the most benign example I can think of are the poorly formulated EU's cookies laws, which resulted in the biggest regress in the history of usability, without a single gain - which is what happens when people that learned to use a computer at 60 are doing internet-related laws)