[amelius]

It's time we start charging big for this negative externality of modern capitalism.

By the way, if our data is worth money then companies using our data without consent are stealing from us in the same sense that piracy or patent infringement is stealing. Big corporations cannot have it both ways.

[smokel]

> if our data is worth money then companies using our data without consent are stealing from us

By that reasoning Pepsi is stealing unsatisfied customers from Coca-Cola and should be put in jail. In other words, I don't think this is how capitalism works.

[anjel]

If there is valid consideration its not unjust enrichment. And the bar for valid consideration is a low one. Any This for that exchange will satisfy this requirement.

"In exchange for providing you this nearly worthless meme graphic someone else made, you give us panoptic access to your private online activities."

[amelius]

The whole point is that the reasoning is flawed. Big companies are applying their own flawed logic and ignoring the logical consequences of it.

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See also: "Every vote for Sprite is just a vote for [Coke|Pepsi]"

It's not how any of it works, but it sounds clever to some, I guess.