I don't care if I discuss say, my retirement plans or my intended stock trades with a cab driver listening in. I do care if a recording of those things is sent to a multi-national company who is motivated by profit.
It's the same case that I don't care if my neighbor's security cam records me leaving my house, but I care quite a bit if a distributed security system owned by the state does.
>I don't care if I discuss say, my retirement plans or my intended stock trades with a cab driver listening in. I do care if a recording of those things is sent to a multi-national company who is motivated by profit.
That's weird, I'm exactly the opposite. The last thing I want to do is give any private financial information to some strange guy who drives a car for a living, which he or one of his contacts might use to rob me. I'm not too worried about a huge multinational company doing that; they'll just try to sell me something at worst.
That multinational company is probably going to put your data in an unsecured s3 bucket or a company-accessible excel spreadsheet. So instead of "some strange guy" it's going to be an entire network of people who could use that to rob you directly, plus anyone who works at any of the companies they sell it to, plus people who buy it directly with the intent of spear fishing or ripping you off (legally or illegally).
