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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:11PM (#12445159)
Actually, not: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...

Other problems:

* Services you use indirectly.

* Services your employer uses and reires you to use.

* Services a government service requires use of.

As technological tools become part of the social, corporate, governmental, and institutional infrastructure, "opting out" becomes an increasingly less viable, and more punishing, alternative.

Too: you're denying the specific tools which directly address the situation. Legal and technical means to loudly and clearly state "no", or to sue for damages where this isn't possible.

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