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DMCA is trash, anyone enforcing corporate greed on ordinary humans is fundamentally evil and worthy of banishment.

Yeah, but it's not a binary thing, it's a continuum. It's perfectly possible for someone like you, the OP, myself, others reading this to have strong narcissistic tendencies but to be self-aware enough to want to change and not be a complete malignant narcissist, the kind who destroy lives and end up on true crime podcasts.

Maybe an EU law will require sites to honor do not track or face stiff fines.

Arguably, search is such a vital function of modern society that it could be considered a public good and seized on the principal of eminent domain.

Stealing call and contact data off a phone is hacking, it's theft, it's criminal activity. It's what they and their chief engineers did. Prosecute them. Clawback all their earnings. They belong in prison for systemic phone hacking.

Don't be evil...

...except when helping the Chinese government oppress and spy on its citizens.

I think it's an important list, even if somewhat sloppy. It would be to everyone's advantage if product reviewers like Consumer Reports, various tech columnists, blogs and so on, got the message that privacy matters. They need to start including privacy as a component of their review.

Pressure for companies to go green has worked over time; pressure for companies to go "quiet" -- that is pro-privacy -- could have the same effect.

parodies of humanity

Why did it take so long? Scummy apps have existed for years.

The term is lying. They lie constantly, consistently, and without a qualm.