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It risks institutionalizing it, making it transactional.

And that poll you found, 79% expecting a gap between the privacy rich and privacy poor.

That's telling.

Exactly.

What are you hiding?

That subtle pressure is part of the coercion problem.

Right.

This concept of mutually advantageous exploitation.

Sounds weird, but.

Precisely.

You consent to an unfair transaction because your other options, maybe homelessness or having no income, are just catastrophic.

A very stark example.

The Brazilian authorities pointed out, look, the rich are the ones who can afford to say no to this kind of thing.

When you need data sharing just to get essentials, a job, health care, maybe housing, is it really voluntary anymore?

Or is it just coercion wrapped up in market language?

It obscures the cumulative threat.

You sell permission A today, permission B tomorrow.

Thinking they're separate, harmless.

Combined with millions of other data points, maybe data you didn't sell using powerful analytics.

That's the systemic risk.