I agree with your point - they’ll hold on to all data bc it’ll be useful in some context some day.
But as a ~40 y.o. U.S. citizen, I also share the previous viewpoint. My economic outlook has been downgraded several times due to external political factors and I’m (internally, at least) jaded and cynical as all hell. The best uses of my personal data would be to steal my loose ~$200 or to jail me and profit off my slave labor.
I still use privacy apps to mitigate unpleasant surprises and am against mass surveillance in all forms, but fuck the bottom feeders at the top of the economic food chain. I hope they are supremely bored when sifting through my bland porn tastes, i.e. - “boobies”.
It’s not that they want to look at what you do or take YOUR money. This is an entire market created around spying on people and selling them to advertisers. Just because your info is dull doesn’t mean it’s not marketable.
Man in his 40s, USA citizen, porn connoisseur
That’s more than enough to start bids on the ad spaces that you encounter. They also have a lot more information about you than just that.
The data they have now is helping them already. Not on some future date.
Define useful.
Useful to you? No.
Useful to make a profile on you, to then sell you to other companies for advertising revenue. Definitely useful.
I agree with your point - they’ll hold on to all data bc it’ll be useful in some context some day.
But as a ~40 y.o. U.S. citizen, I also share the previous viewpoint. My economic outlook has been downgraded several times due to external political factors and I’m (internally, at least) jaded and cynical as all hell. The best uses of my personal data would be to steal my loose ~$200 or to jail me and profit off my slave labor.
I still use privacy apps to mitigate unpleasant surprises and am against mass surveillance in all forms, but fuck the bottom feeders at the top of the economic food chain. I hope they are supremely bored when sifting through my bland porn tastes, i.e. - “boobies”.
It’s not that they want to look at what you do or take YOUR money. This is an entire market created around spying on people and selling them to advertisers. Just because your info is dull doesn’t mean it’s not marketable.
Man in his 40s, USA citizen, porn connoisseur
That’s more than enough to start bids on the ad spaces that you encounter. They also have a lot more information about you than just that.
The data they have now is helping them already. Not on some future date.