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This here. Consumers should expect that their data will be sold as soon as it is available to another company.

Facebook, Google, etc proved that user data is lucrative. Why is it surprising when other companies want to jump on the same money-making stream?

Users don’t read terms and service agreements anymore. As long as companies include data collection and selling the data in the ToS, and customers continue to agree to it, what is the problem?

Customers can either vote with their wallet and move to a provider who respects their data, or they can push their elected politicians to make the sale of data like this illegal.



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