[steveoc64]

I get what you are saying, and yes, those are totally reasonable expectations in any community.

Im just saying - I think its amazing that _anybody_ trusts any of these Silicon Valley organisations to do anything reasonable. They are convenient to use, sure ... but ever trusting them to put your interests above their own. I dont understand how people can believe that.

If you hand over info and put in on their servers .. you dont own that info at all. They can, and will, do whatever they want with it to make another $

[wolfgang42]

The problem is that non-SV companies aren’t generally any better, and frequently worse (cf all the security leaks where they release info that they didn’t mean to publish). The best we can do as individuals is push back against it when we see it happening, and advocate for legislation like GDPR to enforce it legally.

Your original post is poorly worded at best to get your point across; it comes off as a victim-blaming status-quo-advocating cheap quip, which doesn’t add anything to the conversation, either about this particular instance or the general problem.