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It's really like that nowadays. As I become more and more aware and learnt, I started reading privacy policies of products. All of them have blanket statements. They claim ownership of any and all data they'll access for functionality. So I stopped reading them. I implicitly agree that any product I use can and will use all the data I hand over to them. I only think if it's a beneficial trade for me.

This has gotten to a point that we cannot let free markets resolve this, it requires government regulation and laws. I'm fortunate enough to live in EU.

I can. Selling your customer is vile for any amount of money.

The thing is, you don't even lose that customer (only a tiny minority care about privacy issues), it's literally free money.

If the data is being sold, the purchaser of that data is the customer.

The ones providing data are being farmed. We call that something as well, when animals are being farmed for profit.

Well time to send LG a GDPR request and watch them scramble.