Thankbyou for sharing your experience with us.
Because you're already aware of what is happening in the world, you have distance yourself just in time,
unfortunately there are too many people who think:
(*) "Why not?" or using the excuse
(*) "they can have my information, because I have nothing to hide"
In reality, they don't know or understand what people can do when they have enough personal information, bad actors can do many things with personal information +new tech.
In short, people like you and me world wide we are not the masses๐,
the masses give all their "personal" information to many companies without thinking or trying to learn about the hidden dangers ๐ฎโ๐จ ๐๐๐