[rubberband]

Agreed on "yikes" for sure...

What I'd be interested in is, if [Evil Company] (not necessarily Apple or Google or whomever) got a hold of all the data that was vacuumed up in the process... how is that going to translate into them being able to do disturbing things?

I'm not saying they can't or won't... they record and store this firehose of arbitrary data in arbitrary formats... how they make sense of it. It's not like when you open Threads, it goes "ooh there's pictures of his dog... INSERT INTO Dog SELECT 12345, 'great-dane', {base64}"... They collect all this data... But it's not well formatted or understood.

Don't get me wrong, there's an ocean of money for whomever figures out the most evil stuff to do. I'm simply curious how.

I guess the HN crowd could... disrupt privacy /s