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by kevas 2019 days ago
A company selling a product to a few isn’t an issue, yet one who controls the market is. It’s all about the scale
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These students have paid a non-trivial amount of money to attend this school, and passed up the chance to attend others. They are a market that Brown has almost complete control over.

What meaningful choice could a student make to avoid being tracked in the login they use to take classes is what tracks them?

What company? It an issue if Google runs ads against your location history and lets you delete it whenever you request, but not an issue that Flashlight App sells your permanent location history forever to brokers to aggregate and resell to anyone who asks for it?