> Also, the company cannot sell the private info, because it is publicly available.
Uh. Maybe you don't understand why people don't like it when companies sell their data.
It's because it ends up in the hands of every shady marketing agency and intelligence organization on earth. Making it public just means that these parties can get it with no barrier to entry.
See: Usenet, where any email address that's ever touched it is supposedly under constant siege by spam.
Maybe I have expressed myself not clearly enough, so once more: I prefer the collected information to be public because then it is clear to everyone that it is being collected and many more people are aware of the implications. I think it is better than when the same kind of information is being secretly sold while users have a false feeling of privacy.
Uh. Maybe you don't understand why people don't like it when companies sell their data.
It's because it ends up in the hands of every shady marketing agency and intelligence organization on earth. Making it public just means that these parties can get it with no barrier to entry.
See: Usenet, where any email address that's ever touched it is supposedly under constant siege by spam.