I recently downloaded the Soundcloud app for the first time on this iOS device and it said something along the lines of:

By continuing you agree to us sharing your data with our 954 partners…

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raincole 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah and that means the data that you share with Soundcloud.

It's very different from:

> ps aux # Every running process with full arguments

If you think these two cases are even remotely comparable, I don't know what to tell you.

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nandomrumber 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> data that you share with Soundcloud.

I’m not in a position, nor do I have the skills, to fully validate exactly what I’m agreeing to. Let us assume that what I’m sharing is merely my app usage data: what I listen to, my likes, follows, comments, usage patterns, etc.

They share this data with 954 “partners” - what exactly does this mean? What other data do those organisations have? Who do they share it with?

I don’t think the average user has any chance of fully understanding what they’re agreeing to.

	▲	ruszki 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is a difference when you simply lazy, or don’t care enough to understand the information in front of you, or when they don’t provide those information. You’re right, most people don’t care enough, but this is a huge difference. And west is magnitudes better with this. Also I’m living in the EU. If I want I can get all of the information which you asked for. But on the other hand, companies purposefully make those information as obscure as possible. Also, I’m not sure that people would care even if it had been clear. People love free stuffs.