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But they already know my age (and my address, and my SS#, and my income, and a whole bunch of other stuff).
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They don't know your full behavioral profile. They also may be willing to sell that data to third parties who use it for nefarious purposes.
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The power to tell people how old someone is?
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The power of correlating your real ID with your browsing activity on the internet.
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I mean, as much as I don't want the Government to be able to do that, I don't want private industry to be able to do that even more tbh. Though both options are pretty horrendous privacy-wise.
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Until recently I felt the opposite way -- what they could do with that was more targeted advertising. The government currently in power is demonstrating that they can do far worse, and plans to.
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