#privacy google

If i had your contact info, say your first and last name, a phone number or two and an email address, would you like me to hand that out to someone else? Depends on to whom, I'd say. To a common friend? I guess maybe. If that common friend of ours asks me I might just give her your data. It depends on the situation and on our relationship. But would you like me to hand it out to a company? To a company in a jurisdiction you or I don't know anything about? To a company in the business of collecting data? To the company presumably already in possession of the largest collection of personal data? Probably not but that's what just happened. When I created a Google account from my phone in order to install an application, I gave your contact info to Google. Except they didn't ask first.