Invading our privacy is nowhere near the worst thing corporations have done. Just off the top of my head:
(1) McDonalds and other corporations have lobbied to lower and even abolish the already abysmal minimum wage, even though their CEO's get paid millions.
(2) Food companies have deforested the Brazilian rainforests to produce beef and palm oil, even though it'd mean the death of all the wildlife, orangutans and indigenous tribespeople living there
(3) Apple, Nike and lots of other companies have used Chinese child slave labour to make their products
(4) Google and others have taken advantage of the tax system, setting up branches in other countries (tax havens), to avoid paying their fair share
There are countless cases of all of the above done by hundreds of companies, I honestly don't know too much about it all because I get too angry to look into it.
Well the principle should be more than enough for you to not want to let the corporations spy on you. They intially tried to do it without your knowledge or consent, they actively tried to secretly spy on us and steal our personal information, that's just vile. Nowadays it's more known about but that's despite their attempts to suppress it. They then sell our personal data to companies to profit from spying on us. We then have to suffer targeted advertising psychologically manipulating us into spending our money. These companies can end up building up a sophisticated psychological profile on us that, combined with future AI, could predict our interests and spending habits so well to subtely drain money from us throughout our lives. This isn't even to mention the illegal things they could do with it behind closed doors, like giving the government access to it all for more lenient tax breaks, or allowing health insurance companies to view our health-related queries.
Humanity will invariably reach a state of utopia in at most 200 years
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Invading our privacy is nowhere near the worst thing corporations have done. Just off the top of my head:
(1) McDonalds and other corporations have lobbied to lower and even abolish the already abysmal minimum wage, even though their CEO's get paid millions.
(2) Food companies have deforested the Brazilian rainforests to produce beef and palm oil, even though it'd mean the death of all the wildlife, orangutans and indigenous tribespeople living there
(3) Apple, Nike and lots of other companies have used Chinese child slave labour to make their products
(4) Google and others have taken advantage of the tax system, setting up branches in other countries (tax havens), to avoid paying their fair share
There are countless cases of all of the above done by hundreds of companies, I honestly don't know too much about it all because I get too angry to look into it.
Well the principle should be more than enough for you to not want to let the corporations spy on you. They intially tried to do it without your knowledge or consent, they actively tried to secretly spy on us and steal our personal information, that's just vile. Nowadays it's more known about but that's despite their attempts to suppress it. They then sell our personal data to companies to profit from spying on us. We then have to suffer targeted advertising psychologically manipulating us into spending our money. These companies can end up building up a sophisticated psychological profile on us that, combined with future AI, could predict our interests and spending habits so well to subtely drain money from us throughout our lives. This isn't even to mention the illegal things they could do with it behind closed doors, like giving the government access to it all for more lenient tax breaks, or allowing health insurance companies to view our health-related queries.