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Originally Posted by CommonReader
They have no sophisticated standards, they just have no clue. Kids are generally far too trusting.
I'm slightly puzzled by the attitude expressed here that you just can't do anything about online privacy. I do not see why a program that is supposedly just aiding product searches on a website but that is in fact a spying device shouldn't legally be treated like malware and its authors prosecuted. If the internet is a legal no man's land, then why should anyone bother about online piracy either?
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If the collectors of the data do something that causes you to suffer some damage or loss you can sue them to recover. If you have no loss or damages, that you can attribute to the data collection, then you would have no case. There are some who want to receive "micro-targeted" ads, who see the results of the data collection as something that benefits them. Is there some potential for a bad actor to get in there and cause harm? Yes, of course, and we may not have, in place, the measures to track and sufficient penalties to deter and/or punish such misuse/abuse. There should be criminal as well as civil penalties in place. Not for the collection of the data but for any actual damage done, it is the doing of the harm that we must have measures to deal with. No harm is done by the data collection itself and there are those who feel they benefit from the process.
Luck;
Ken