Yeah there are too many poorly educated lefties here. Or worse, well educated and deliberately deceptive.

People are idiots. Why would you give up a benefit you’re legally entitled to? Nobody is going to as much as thank you for that.

And countries can totally do the same. Argentina was bankrupt at least twice, Venezuela has defaulted on bonds, Greece was restructured. And I’m pretty sure there are others.

They changed the phrasing, since in some jurisdictions “sharing anonymized data with partners” can apparently be interpreted as a sale of data, if they get something in return, even if it’s not a fiscal payment.

But after the outrage that sparked, they’ve rephrased the policy again and wrote a lengthy article detailing the reasoning, which is at the very least plausible.