Reply to post: Re: Paranoid much

Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle

Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: Paranoid much

Unless you're world famous nobody cares what you do your data is just data.

Speaks one who fails to realise how much companies are prepared to pay for data on each and everyone of us and who will quite happily and openly talk about data as currency. The only thing they won't do is tell you how much your data is actually worth to them. You have to infer this from some of the deals they do such as Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp for $ 20 bn. At the time WhatsApp had about 400 mn users so that's around $ 50 per user as a rough guide.

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