> Cloudflare will not sell or share Public Resolver users’ personal data with third parties or use personal data from the Public Resolver to target any user with advertisements.
There's a lot of transparency on that page in particular, down to the lists of the fields in the logs.
Ads are among the most benign things someone could use your private information to do. With your personal information:
* Parties can engage in price discrimination against you. (You don't shop around? you've got some extra spending money? double prices! Looking up risky activities? high insurance rates!)
* Parties can engage in lawfare and blackmail
* Parties can influence elections (without advertising, e.g. by gerrymandering or by targeting your participation in elections just based on knowing how you'll vote)
* Parties can target people of your race or beliefs for genocide (oh, sorry, I meant to say "lawful orders of governments")
Plus the definition of advertising itself is up to interpretation: is sending someone to your door advertising?
* Parties can engage in price discrimination against you. (You don't shop around? you've got some extra spending money? double prices! Looking up risky activities? high insurance rates!)
* Parties can engage in lawfare and blackmail
* Parties can influence elections (without advertising, e.g. by gerrymandering or by targeting your participation in elections just based on knowing how you'll vote)
* Parties can target people of your race or beliefs for genocide (oh, sorry, I meant to say "lawful orders of governments")
Plus the definition of advertising itself is up to interpretation: is sending someone to your door advertising?