Maybe another analogy would be like if you had to give your full banking information to every restaurant your family dines at?
Cough syrup not being evil -used as intended to alleviate symptoms but not cure OR chugged like a panacea ambrosia delivered by the gods- is such a weird analogy to write as the burden of use falls on the individual rather than the collector.
How dare people prescribed highly addictive advertised as nonaddictive cocaine start taking it spoonful up the butthole~
imo this is the single correct perspective to have about data
- Offer a service.
- Claim that your service exists to make the world better in some vague way.
- Train yourself to sound like a compassionate, altruistic person that cares about others.
- Sell user data. Hide the information about what data is being sold and who is buying it and why as much as possible.
- Become wealthy selling data from users who trusted you.
- Buy bona-fide companies and put them to the service of your evil cause.
- Normalize evil behavior. Force other companies to become evil in order to compete.
- Turn the Internet into a privacy nightmare.
- Turn the field of computer science into satanism.