The worrisome thing is not that GoodRx is selling your confidential prescription information. The problem is that Facebook and Google are buying them.
Even more worrisome is that the fine is proportionally tiny, not even a slap on the wrist.
How far does it have to go with data hoarding by tech giants for people to start to opt out?
I worry that humankind is kind of caught in a death spiral there.
What death spiral? The problem might be: ever more #complexity makes it ever more obscure (to an individual human) in which ways this data accumulation is detrimental to the whole of society.
People might be manipulated in increasingly obscure ways and more and more effectively through all this data in combination with our highly complex societal system (culture, corporations, politics, science, ...) ... and in the end they just cannot tell, what caused what.
They might just feel ever more strongly that things don't feel good .. but they just cannot point their fingers at the cause. Because everything is too complex to understand.
