3 ms·
Calacanis, after ranting about Facebook privacy, breaches his user’s privacy.
I'm on Jason Calacanis' email newsletter list.
After his email yesterday stating that he's quitting Facebook for privacy breaches I was amused this morning to see that he had inadvertently left his newsletter mailbot settings open so that users could reply to eachother.
Most people are respectful, but there are of course a half-dozen bad eggs self-promoting, sending ads, etc. Anybody else on the list?
- getonit 16y agoThat's surprising. He seems like such a nice chap.
- threepointone 16y agowhatever you might say about the man, this seems more like an honest mistake.
- aresant 16y agoI'd say no question, but still entertaining. And I think highlights why privacy IS so important - Jason's list is super targeted and unscrupulous advertisers who are also subscribers immediately began abusing the information. If they had more info - phone / address / etc - those would be put right to use too.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoTitle should have been "breaches his users' privacy" - I thought somehow he had breached his own privacy? Those pesky apostrophes.
- vantran 16y agoI'm not sure why it's privacy related... I'm on his list and as far as I know, the mailing list was vulnerable to spam, so I guess you could say security is lacking. But privacy? Your email address isn't leaked out to anyone (so once the fix comes in, no more spam), and you gave up no other info when you signed up.