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by anxiousest 4676 days ago
Their business - like that of most tech companies - is built on data (so is every business to some degree) they can't forgo data, that is stupid. If the NSA is your main concern then it's government policy you want to be changed, not the engineering decisions of private companies. Also worth mentioning that unless you're speaking of telecom companies there is no profit motive to cooperating with government but mainly legal obligations.
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Their business is data, buy they have gone beyond that, they just don't want to know what I'd like to buy, they want to know were I live, my phone number, the places I visit, they want to know where I'm every single second of the day, screw that.
They're not forcing you. You can give them that or you might consider the benefits not worth it and you won't, it's not an NSA type issue.
They are not forcing me yet they are still tracking me, with dirty tricks like this one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...

yeah, the are clever when is about getting your info.