[AnimalMuppet]

There's three kinds of privacy that I can see: privacy against a hacker, privacy against Google et al, and privacy against the government.

The first kind I think you care about. You don't want your computer being part of a botnet. You don't want a hacker running the camera on your phone. You don't want a hacker watching as you type your password for your bank account.

The second kind, privacy against Google, I can't convince you that you care about. I might even be able to make a case that you don't. Let's say I'm on a business trip, and I need to eat dinner. I ask Google for restaurants. I'm going to get better answers if Google knows where I am (which is a privacy intrusion). I'm going to get even better answers if Google knows what kind of foods I like (which is also a privacy intrusion). Those privacy intrusions actually provide me value (at least in some situations). Maybe I don't want to stop them.

Privacy against the government... that ship has sailed. They have the capability to find out everything if they decide to. The battle is political, to keep them from deciding that they want to without adequate (that is, criminal) cause, and without due process.

[atomicnumber1]

2. I'm wondering (as others have outlined) that, granted they do give me value today at the risk of my privacy, but what about the future, what if there motives change, that can affect me in insidious ways.