[jacquesm]

I think if you confronted your average user with what these companies collect in data behind the scenes they would be astounded. I've seen a lot of this stuff professionally and it is quite amazing that any of this is legal at all. The profiles that these companies have on private individuals are at a level that the intelligence services likely can not match, either in quantity or in quality.

[rightbyte]

To Joe Doe's defense it took way to long for me to realize Google stalked me on the web. Embarrassingly long. "Internet people" told me but I thought they were crackpots.

[ilyt]

And now due to law user can directly click to see list of dozen, sometimes over hundred companies the "accept" click gives access to their tracking