[mypastself]

Also, crime is whatever the law defines as such. Smoking weed is a crime, and data collection and processing is not.

But I’m pleasantly surprised the author puts the responsibility for abandoning the tech on users rather than governments.

[polotics]

there is actually a lot of data processing and collection that is illegal: anything that is done as part of an illegal activity, inclusive of privacy breaches, gathering of information about religious beliefs or sexual orientation in GDPR countries...

[mypastself]

Well, of course it’s illegal if it’s part of illegal activity. The author seems to be applying broad charges of criminality to all software that tracks user behavior. We can argue whether any tracking should be illegal, but not whether it already is.