To a degree. Vaccines and autism have some different qualities. One, there doesn&#x27;t appear to be any link between vaccines and autism and two, if there was a link it&#x27;s closer to the &quot;do we kill 5 people or 1 person&quot; ethical question with a game theory twist.<p>I don&#x27;t know enough about what a GMO dystopia would be to comment.<p>I like the fuel &#x2F; climate change analogy because we know the general outcome (increased temperatures) and a number of likely&#x2F;possible effects, but it&#x27;s hard to say exactly how much life will change for the majority of people and there is a very obvious short-term benefit to going along with it. There is current evidence that it is actually a real problem as well. Fossil fuels are the revenue model for many industries, which is also the case with data collection.<p>While it&#x27;s a lesser problem, data tracking has similar qualities. We know we lose privacy, but how much and what will the effects of losing that privacy be? There is incentive to use these &#x27;free&#x27; services. The NSA, constant data breaches by hacking groups and government trying to strong-arm companies into weakening encryption show that it&#x27;s a pretty big deal. Lavabit was effectively shut down in a very shady legal manner because it didn&#x27;t want to provide data on all of it&#x27;s customers when just one was being targeted.<p>If privacy really doesn&#x27;t matter, give me read-only access to your emails. Then tell me when you leave the house each morning and when you arrive home. Machine learning is pretty fun, we can often learn more about you from data you think is meaningless than by reading your emails. Some portion (perhaps most) of the information on you will eventually make it&#x27;s way outside of wherever it was initially stored. Oh and it&#x27;s stored forever and you couldn&#x27;t possibly imagine the uses or incentives on how to use that data in the future because you haven&#x27;t imagined it yet. Let&#x27;s have the discussion and decide on some kind of limitations and ethical practices please. Relying on people to be reasonable got us the current NSA.