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Is collecting user information itself considered unethical? Isn't the unethical part abusing sharing of that information?

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JohnFen on May 17, 2019 [–]

> Is collecting user information itself considered unethical?

If it's being done without the informed consent of the user whose data is being collected, then yes.

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