Maybe worth re-iterating my views here, from this and other threads, as I think I might be being misunderstood. Foremost, I am deeply troubled by the invasions of privacy that affect every aspect of modern life, examples...
I got junk mail yesterday from a (respectable) life insurance company, with whom I've never had dealings. It included an 'out of the blue' sample quote based on my actual month and year of birth, so they knew my date of birth. I'd imagine they obtained that data from some shared database, to which I supplied the data when buying some other product from some other company, probably in the financial industry. And when making that earlier purchase I probably ticked 'I agree' to the T&C that stated they would share my data - I probably had no choice, else they'd have refused my business.
My email is hosted by Google. They make no secret of the fact that they will look at (read) hosted email for the purposes of, at least, targeted advertising. Again nothing illegal, and I undoubtably ticked 'I agree'.
Millions of people sign up to supermarket discount cards (I don't). An elderly lady, who signs up for all of them, recently commented on how 'accurate' (to her interests) the junk mail she received these days, had become. No surprise to me.
These are the things that scare me. I wish they were not legal. Having the ability to 'secretly' tell my other half that I'll be home late for dinner, using some strong encryption App, pales into insignificance.
