[killjoywashere]

Far better than an itemized list, you can download all your data from Google

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en

> The default should be zero/as little as possible collection of data.

Really? What about telemetry for self-driving cars? Is it immoral to develop a system that leads to less blunt trauma and death on roads? We (HN users, I don't work for any of these companies) can define your term "as little as possible" about like you seem to define parent's term "seriously". The point being that such adjectives are difficult to pin down but also difficult to avoid. Define "difficult" however you see fit.

[UncleEntity]

> What about telemetry for self-driving cars?

They own the cars so they can track them all they want.

Tracking me all over the place after I click the "Do Not Track Me" button isn't acceptable.

> Is it immoral to develop a system that leads to less blunt trauma and death on roads?

It quite could be. Just as we humans decided to not use the scientific research generated by the Nazis on unwilling human subjects there are definite limits to what is acceptable even if the overall benefits are huge.

[solveit]

Collectively, we did no such thing. Many individual researchers and journals refused to use Nazi research, but many felt that it was unethical not to use it if it could save lives. In particular, I believe that the results of Nazi hypeothermia experiments were extensively used after the war. It's certainly not a cut-and-dry problem with an obvious ethical answer.