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Can you name a more trustworthy one for this purpose?

Anybody who doesn't base their whole business around ignoring privacy so they can target their ads better?

Without turning into a complete shill, there are many companies well known for abusing and selling your data.

Having seen that abuse first-hand, Google is still one of the better ones when it comes to having good internal safeguards and policies -- but they get so much attention for their scale and breadth of data.

One big problem I see is that Google already has a lot of data. Just having that much aggregated data makes any company a bad choice.

It needs to be a regulated nonprofit independent entity. Trusting an ads corp your medical data is as good as asking a bunch of junkies to look after your home while you're away on vacation.

> regulated nonprofit independent entity.

Which will be hacked in 2 weeks of its existence..

Nonprofit doesn't mean cheap. I see it as a defence contractor of some sort: it gets big money from the gov, hires the best staff, but is also regulated and doesn't report to wall st.

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