My, for a lack of a better word, jaded perspective comes from living in a country where I am constantly bombarded with ads and am forced to fight for any sort of protection from corporations :/
"The GDPR provides several exemptions and derogations for the use of health data, e.g. in the context of research or public health purposes under certain conditions. Typical procedures in this context include the application of ethical standards for scientific research as mentioned in Recital 33 and the implementation of organisational and technical safeguards as mentioned in Article 89 including anonymisation, pseudonymisation and encryption [2]. Pseudonymisation is generally recommended as long as the research purposes can be fulfilled in this manner. With the condition of such safeguards, the GDPR creates exemptions for researchers to process sensitive health data even beyond the purposes for which they were collected. "
> [For Profit Company] [verb] [adjective] data of [noun].
The point is, what do people think these thousands of engineers are doing throughout the tech industry? Do people really believe it takes 1k developers to style a login button? Or deploy a kubernetes cluster?
It's painfully simple. Capitalism dictates that companies must acquire and explore new methods of generating profit at all costs. Therefore, it should be assumed that an internet company is hoovering as much data as possible until proven otherwise.