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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1944389, member: 27832&quot;]A company that transfers money on your behalf collects information about the accounts it&#039;s transferring money from and to? Golly!</p><p><br /></p><p>A Web application collects the information that <i>every Web browser sends with every Web request</i>? Double golly!</p><p><br /></p><p>A huge company with many millions of customers collects information about those customers in order to target ads, identify patterns indicating fraud, and satisfy legal requirements? Fetch me my smelling salts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Said company does not plan to torch all that data, hugely reducing the company&#039;s value, in case it gets acquired? Well, <i>that</i> makes no business sense at <i>all</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps we should all move back to small towns and start doing all our business with untraceable cash. I&#039;m sure the neighbors would be happy to look away as we walk to and from the store, and the storekeeper would be happy to wear a blindfold while he rings up our purchases...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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