If you don’t mind such things one bit, would you mind sharing with all of here all of the following:
- your physical address (preferably in the format that would let anyone of us send you whatever we desire)
- your age
- your full legal name
- your phone number that you use most often
- your school
- your work (its address, your title, company, etc)
- your income
- your expenses
- the stores you go to and what for, also when and how often
- your hometown
- your pet names
- your mother’s maiden name
- your bank of choice
- what tech you own in detail
- your schedule
- your search history
- your browser bookmarks
And many other things, too. Somehow I doubt you’d ever do that, but you’re fine trusting this kind of data to be handed away to many corporations for absolutely no benefit on your end. They’ll just sell it for cash money, only to be bought by con-artsists to try and scam you out of something later.
I mean being a contempt consumer is one thing, but defending some entities hoarding more data about you than your entire family knows is just delusional. Especially given the fact that you are most likely more careful with your data in other circumstances, like talking to strangers or using the Internet for at least some things, but then you defend careless and irresponsible handling of your data when it comes to what, mobile apps?
You should really learn more on the topic.
There are people behind algorithms. They don’t exist for the sole purpose of gathering the data for the sake of it - the data is later accessed and processed by people.
And how is that different from giving any of information to me? I’m just trying to gather some statistics here, nothing more.
Is this why Zuckerberg went to trial and the EU is preventing apps and services whose sole purpose is to hoover up some data about you to become available in its domain?