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Maybe not stealing but extortion. “Give us all your data or you can’t use the service all your friends use to keep in touch”.

It’s even worse when the service we’re talking about goes beyond social networking and becomes a must-have like a cell phone (referring to major US carriers secretly selling location data to a marketing company).



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