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If you don't use that feature, it's a non issue. Right?
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.
That's the thing though. They know nobody would ever do this voluntarily.
Or to not do it to begin with.
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.
Name checks out...