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It's exactly as if the OS was created by Google. Google is a company whose entire business model is centered around collecting as much data as possible on as many people as possible for their own financial gain regardless of what those people want or the harms that it causes. They will do anything if it makes them money. What else would you expect from them?



What harm does it cause?


Assuming this is a good faith question, here are some answers:

https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/the-danger...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/why-getting-paid-your-...

As far as solutions, these are probably going to be more regulatory than technological in nature:

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/what-gdpr-means-for-facebo...




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