So Google Analytics kills people? It saps your bodily fluids, I mean, will to live, at the same level as fluoridated water, and is equally dangerous with building fires.
Gotcha. This is the best example of false equivalence I've yet seen.
Gotcha. This is the best example of false equivalence I've yet seen.
And if you wanted to examine whether it could be a matter of life or death, it wouldn't be that big of a stretch. Consider what might be the result of someone trying to escape from an abusive relationship having their personal data exposed. Or a whistleblower / political dissident. For example, imagine a Chinese dissident with a free-Tibet facebook record whose data gets back to the Chinese government.
I'd focus on China particularly because they're developing a system for working out how much people align with the state and it appears it may be partly based on the information they can find out about people's internet postings: