I put an ENORMOUS amount of effort not to have Google involved in my life and for them not to have ANY of my data, and I constantly find myself failing.
So yes, I feel it's fair to call it stealing my data.
So yes, I feel it's fair to call it stealing my data.
Fair enough.
It's like complimenting whoever stole my bike last year for taking good care of it.
I don't necessarily buy this argument. They collect a lot of data, and we could argue whether they need to collect so much data, but that is not necessarily 'stealing' your data.