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by totalZero 2309 days ago
On the idea that taking and sharing your personal data without an opt-in would be company suicide:

Samsung has already hit this sort of scandal with its smart televisions and nobody really cared.

https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-rec...

The expectation that the free market will keep companies from spying on us...well, it would be nice, but increasingly it seems to be wishful thinking.