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Yes a lot of companies do collect data in a so-called "we want to improve our app/device" guise, but some go way too far, especially Google and Facebook. We really need a federal law on the books requiring companies to automatically turn off data collection as the default setting, and have to request our permission to collect data before they do, and have to be 100% transparent with what they will do with that data. I mean ANY data, period. There is way too much abuse, including the sharing and selling of our data to other companies and organizations, in some cses even GD political organizations can purchase that data. That needs to stop unless we give our specific permission to them. I've installed a lot of iOS apps that ask for permission to collect data and I always say no, at least until I can check them out through research. That is the way it should be required, that the default is set to NO data collection unless we give our permission.
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