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I think it's a mistake to frame it that way. Collecting and selling data is essentially ubiquitous among companies with access to harvestable data. ISPs, cell providers, smart tv manufacturers, and so on are not broadly associated with some specific historic cultural or urban planning failing. They're companies with access to an additional revenue stream, and nearly any company that can will make the same decision.



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