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If you don't use that feature, it's a non issue. Right?
Name checks out...
It's the principle of the thing. These companies keep overreaching all the time.
Yeah. I suppose. It would have been better from a security/privacy standpoint for it to be an opt-in vs an opt-out.
If they would have had two working brain cells they would have made it opt in and made a contest told them that one lucky person will win $10,000.
That's the thing though. They know nobody would ever do this voluntarily.
Or to not do it to begin with.