I had elaborated why the distinction between the two is but a tiny epsilon in the second paragraph. I removed the second part of the sentence you quoted so perhaps people will continue reading rather than having a knee-jerk.<p>There is no &quot;license&quot; (in the sense of copyright) for the collected data, so there are no builtin penalies for violating the contract. Theoretically a company could commit to $10k in liquidated damages per deliberate privacy violation, but this could be done today so I&#x27;ll consider it when I actually see such a term in a contract,  especially for a free service.<p>Since you think it appropriate to dismiss me as <i>deliberately</i> writing &quot;disingenuous rubbish&quot;, I would kindly ask you to elaborate what you believe my motive is for doing so.<p>There is certainly a powerful motive to defend private surveillance companies, even if it&#x27;s just people wanting to believe in what they&#x27;re creating.