Admittedly, I went about it in a ham-handed manner (I blame the Monday), but my core point is this: Klout is doing nothing differently evil with your data, than any other social network. No laws are being broken because [Klout says] no PII is being sold willy-nilly.

There's a comment over on the post that nails exactly what I'm trying to say, and in a much better way: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-soc...