Totally fair, but I still get to control my own money at the end of the day. The selling of you is to corporations for the purposes of later selling you something. I can control my own eventual destiny under those terms (not that I like this either).
You think?
Think about what people post on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of the other various social media sites. Now imagine an industry working collectively to use all of that publicly shared information to build a database of knowledge on you and your behaviours. Sure, they might use it to sell you more targeted products (and my view has always been that given I'm going to be advertised to anyway, I'd rather you advertise things that I might be interested in), but that's not what's concerning.
What if they used it to change the price of things that they sell to you? Say, insurance. Hey Alio, we see pictures of you drinking on a fairly regular basis. That just bumped up your life insurance premium, and given we might assume a greater chance of you driving afterwards given where you live and how much you seem to drink, have a 15% hike on your car insurance as well.
What's this, Alio? A shiny new road bike? Lovely purchase, that. Except you've just increased your chances of having a crash, so take a hit on your health insurance for that.
I see you've also installed a new stereo in your car. Yeah, unfortunately you didn't tell me about that so now that you're in need of making a claim on your car insurance after that lady rear-ended you the other day, I'm afraid I'm going to have to say no. Unreported modifications, you see. It's in the fine print.
The risks of corporate world having your data go far deeper than just who's trying to sell you stuff.
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