Remember the good ol' days when privacy was just that - private? No? Well, you may be a millennial. But ever since Google came blasting onto the scene with their free services where they collected information about you and me in order to sell that information to third-party advertisers. Once Google made this process their modus operandi and swiftly made more money than most of us - heck, more than some nation-states - everyone else quickly jumped on board. This platform isn't necessarily bad for the user as long as the user [1] knows what's going on, [2] has control over what data is collected, or [3] has the ability to opt-out, even if that means incurring a fee. For example, I pay for a GSuite account. I'm paying money for a service through my own personal domain. Should Google also make money on the backend with my personal data? According to the United States Congress, everyone should be allowed to make money off your personal data , even if you'd rather the...
