Comment by impossiblefork 3 months ago
No, because it'd be incredibly dangerous to me to have all these groups storing data about me and allowing them to determine my comings and goings.
You may think 'we're only using it for advertising', but I don't trust you and I can't. I don't want you to obtain information about my political views, or how they differ from what I say on the internet, or who I talk to about maths, or where I buy food.
A major problem is, that even if I don't click "agree" to EULAs, I have no idea if the companies think I did or not. Also, what prevents someone else from "agreeing" on my behalf without my permission; which apparently happens often when sales people set for their new owners (which I witnessed when I was with my mother when she purchased a new car).
What's consideration in EULA?
As I interpret I don't think Swedish consumer contract law allows what you describe to matter anyway, and since the GDPR requires free consent it becomes more dubious, so obvious dataintrång.
This isn't data rights though, this is that the same law that prohibits people from hacking into your computer is applicable to people doing other things with it in unpermitted ways.
Basically, a program that exfiltrates data without permission is treated no different from a rootkit, legally.
> You may think 'we're only using it for advertising', but I don't trust you and I can't.
We already know that the data companies collect isn't only being used for ads, if not by the company that collects then by others who get access to that data either through sale or not. For example, Lawyers are using that data in courtrooms for things like divorce and custody hearings, and police are using it to turn innocent people into suspects.