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Or better, how about simple and honest business models? "Shutterfly is a photo printer, so they make money by charging people to print photos." No biometric d

• kefka 11y ago
  But that is a low-margin business. So I have tons of images associated with accounts. So, why can't I do a 'google' and image mine too? Aaaand, I can sell the results to whatever data company? Suddenly, higher margins and fulfills corporate charter.
  • kuschku 11y ago
    A business making high margins is always suspicious – because they need to get the money from /somewhere/, and if you’re a customer, then the company will only get those margins by charging you more than it is worth. (By the way, too high margins are even illegal in some countries)
    • kefka 11y ago
      That's the special part of this: People who buy prints that they upload are a customer and a product. Companies that buy the aggregate big data package of all individual customers are also customers. A simple EULA boilerplate "we can do whatever we want with your images" is usually enough to disclaim liability or privacy... Because you chose to upload them out of your control. I didn't say it was ethical.
• withdavidli 11y ago
  They already acquired a company that does that and makes them into photo albums: Groovebook http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/11/18/shutterfly-acquires-groovebook/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/11/18/shutterf... Know that you're just giving an example. Points about simple and honest business model comment. Maybe this is considered simple now in terms of the Valley. The honest part, almost no one reads the TOS/EULA.