[mrtksn]

> Some of us do not subscribe to the "ends justify the means" theory

I don't think that this is the case here. To be an "end justifies means" the writer would have to give a false information on an information that is relevant to the core of the story. Does it really matter what's the size of some digital data? Would it be O.K. if Google collected 100Mb of data but totally unacceptable if that was 5Gb?

The size of the data is an irrelevant implementation detail of the story. Even assuming that this is all the data about you is silly in the first place but the articla is not about that - even if the title says so.

[danarmak]

My point was exactly that the size is irrelevant - because the data being measured is irrelevant to the story.