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The issue is, that your personal info is valuable to only you. It also doesn't reflect character worth or personal worth.

That's how people gave their privacy away to apps - they've realized this is the best deal they can get for it. Conversely, when the court tries to estimate what is the financial impact of such a leak, there's not much to base it off.

I've just finished The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and it's ridiculous how Google et Al were able to profit from these scraps we gave them. So maybe the value could be higher?



I think $30 at a high enough volume accounts for the high revenue.


Right, that makes the case that the court nailed it. It still doesn't feel good though.




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