Companies value your privacy in the same way weird people value virginity.

We and our 871 partners value your privacy. Just saw that on some online shop yesterday.

Funny enough it almost never means they care.

I had a pop-up site demand I turn off my VPN today. The audacity.

They love their double speak.

I love a good play on words. Good shower thought.

Same with something like "made with carefully selected ingredients" yup selected by price , lowest.

The fact that Meta has a C-suite position that's called Chief Privacy Officer is my favorite absurdly ironic fact.

I can't imagine how can anyone apply to that with a strait face and clear conscience, but that's prpbably true for most positions at Meta, aside from like Beat Games and the like.

In reality it means jack shit, it's corporatespeak at its most vapid

It literally only exists as a legal liability defense mechanism.

It is legalese.

'Value' as a verb could mean in nearly any concievable context or form.

It just means 'is important to us in some unspecified way'... and then the actual specifics are in the ToS you probably don't read.

Your privacy is valuable to you, and that's why it's so hard for us to get our hands on your data. Since the data is so difficult to obtain, it suddenly becomes very valuable to advertisers. They are willing to pay us a lot of money for it, and that's why it's very valuable to us as well. Hand over that private data, or else!