@KimSJ @dotjayne shouldn’t that be more “does the demonstrable benefit to society outweigh harm that might be done to the person”? in the case of organ donation after death, there is no person for there to be a cost to - the person has expired. there are cases where a benefit to society argument will be employed without a definite benefit to society

@KimSJ I honestly feel like that is one of the very few examples where opt-out is preferable. I also assume the OP was talking about tech exclusively.

@KimSJ @dotjayne good point. If cross-context behavioral/surveillance/personalized advertising was really a good way to match buyers and sellers in a market, then by now it would been possible to show that people with privacy tools and/or settings are buying worse products and services ( https://blog.zgp.org/easy-experiment-behavioral-advertising/ ) But it looks like the effect goes in the opposite direction.

Instead of assuming a trade-off between market and privacy goals, better to see a win-win situation when it presents itself