This meme needs to be shouted from the mountaintops until everybody understands it. Indeed you are correct- a company can be pure evil and charge you for wrecking your privacy. But if the app is free, that's all they can do and it's pretty obvious they are going to do it. If they are charging you for the product, there is at least some hope that they won't, and if they do, they have crossed a moral line- in the same sense as someone selling your email address.
Nonsense. The problem is that it is not harmful enough to those who wish to operate a business by taking advantage of others' ignorance.
In a fair business transaction both sides understand the implications of said transaction. In this type, one is vastly more aware of what is being collected and how it may be used than the other.
It's like being tricked/coerced into giving up the mineral rights to your property because you don't understand the value. Or domain name squatting.
Oh, I know. "It's just business." So that makes it ok.
