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Are you implying that my online data is as important to me as an actual organ?! Because it certainly doesn’t feel that way.

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If it's data about your sexual orientation, HIV status, and who you've been talking to it may be extremely important.

Should we consider all our data as important as our medical history and sexual orientation? And also as important as an actual organ, as the OP was implying?

No, and I explicitly stated "while it's obviously a different scale".

So, since you brought human organs in a discussion about data, what are you comparing it to then, on its scale? A toenail? An eyelash? Some dead skin?

What is of such great importance and I can’t be allowed to exchange it at any price and I can’t be trusted to make this decision myself?

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