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by gumby 1291 days ago
Most likely theory is that they actually want to use the data (or once did, and nobody deletes it because they think somebody else must need it).

In the more general case of data collection I believe people collect data simply because they can. I strongly believe that the PII collected by advertisers and others is mostly never used. A liability they take on with no benefit.