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But how do you know that is all they are selling? They have already said that when I search for something, they would like my response to be based on what they know about ME.

There is no law keeping them from granting that information to a "preferred business partner". How do you know that haven't already provided that information?

The government has LAWS about what they can do with your information, and yet you fear them. Why don't you fear Google, which has no such laws protecting you?

The government has LAWS about what they can do with your information, and yet you fear them. Why don't you fear Google, which has no such laws protecting you?

If I don't like Google's privacy policies, I can use another search engine.

If I don't like the government's privacy policy, there's not much I can do, especially in this day and age when the government is growing and growing and growing, both in size, and power, at all levels from county to state to federal, and especially when you have a population that doesn't care.

I can sit here and complain, and I can get a few dozen other Conservatives that agree with me, but the rest of my peers don't care - they buy into whatever the government tells them. They pull this "if you don't have anything to fear, you shouldn't worry" crap, or if you speak out against the government, they try to label you a traitor or criminal. That's not the case using private companies - I can change those at any time.

To clarify - the market (in this instance - me saying I don't like certain privacy policies and changing search engines) is more powerful against private companies than the citizenry is against the government (me saying I don't like where this administration is headed).

The government has LAWS about what they can do with your information, and yet you fear them.

Why not, the government had LAWS about how they can obtain that information, yet they sidestepped them.