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So? What’s the problem?

If I go in public someone might photograph me or see me. If I visit a website, it might log information about my visit (to show me ads).

Sounds fine to me. I like reading free news articles, paid for with ads. If I don’t like it I can stop reading them.

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A single photograph of you in public is usually not a problem. But if I were to follow you around and take a picture every 10 seconds as you go through your day (including at home and in the bathroom), would you like that?

Advertisers don't follow us around and take photos of us, so that's not something we need to worry about. But CCTVs do have photos of us being taken every 10 seconds in public in major cities. It's not an issue. Nobody is publishing CCTV photos of me. Similarly, advertisers aren't telling your spouse what websites you visited. They just want to show you ads that are relevant to your interests.

My point is that the expectation of privacy is unreasonable in every situation. For example, it's unreasonable in public or when doing business with others.

It's only unreasonable insofar as "they totally could do that". Whether they do do that is a matter of regulation.

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