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palou said:

Explicitely informing the consumer what information they are giving away would be a bare minimum, however. This is a price that they demand, the price must always be apparent to the consumer.

 

Information does not belong to those that are paid to spread it. If you send, let's say, a product prototype by mail, Fedex would have no right to sell your ideas to a company, for example. 

 

You pay for information to be given transmitted. This does not give an automatic right to the messenger to your information.

Except this time your messenger is digital so there's no penalty if they get access to your raw data when you have to rely on their network for service. It's a federal offense for mail carriers to open a physical mail ... 

If you use an ISps network they have every right to know what the hell is going on in their servers ...