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Personally I don't think that researchers have any more business doing this kind of surveillance than Google and company do.

The idea that this will benefit society seems naive to me. I feel like it will only serve to legitimize the practice by putting ostensibly trustworthy faces on the packaging.

[splistud]

Not just surveillance, but conducting research within corporate platforms. Therefore, they would have access to my data and a corporation's engine. If I think that google knows too much about me, do I get to opt-in whether that hyper-knowledge is shared to researchers (because I won't).

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> Personally I don't think that researchers have any more business doing this kind of surveillance than Google and company do.

As other commenters have noted, then you should decline to opt-in to participating in research such as this.