People were also furious that LinkedIn gave itself the right to use information you posted to train its artificial intelligence. And some celebrities posted on Instagram to deny permission for all their posts to fuel Meta's AI supercomputers. (Those posts won't work.)
Companies aren't listening to what you're implicitly saying every time there's a backlash to uses of your data such as in the cases of PayPal, LinkedIn, Meta AI, Sonos, Udemy and Zoom Video.
You're saying that you don't trust companies to do the right thing with your personal information. And you hate feeling like you have little control over your data.
What you're seeing is an increasing awareness from the public that companies are abusing our personal data, said Caitriona Fitzgerald, deputy director of the consumer advocacy group the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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