User Data Collection Concerns
Commenters express suspicions that companies collect user data for spying, advertising, profiling, or profit rather than solely for product improvement, debating privacy risks and anonymization effectiveness.
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This isn't data for serving user needs, this is data for spying on users
What is the surprise? Who doesn't collect data? As long as that data is anonymized and used for improving their product(s), I am fine. It will be scary if the data is used for selling ads/data itself.
will? they already do. what do you think facebook, or gmail, or reddit, or the myriad 3rd party data aggregators has been collecting for years?
Perhaps they are just trying to leverage people's personal data. See social trends, etc.
Why do you think you can't buy that? These companies have been building up profiles on millions (billions?) of people for many years now. It is not unreasonable to think they could infer stuff that they don't directly measure. Nor that these profiles would be shared/sold.
Still makes it sound like they want to profit from user data.
maybe they benefit from the usage data they collect?
They're surely mining your data. Why else would they do this ?
How can they collect private data on you personally if you don't use their product?
You better believe they're going to collect that user data though.