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If you take out a loan from a loan shark, you should probably know what to expect. That doesn't mean that the loan shark isn't breaking the law when you get rou
by pyre 9y ago
If you take out a loan from a loan shark, you should probably know what to expect. That doesn't mean that the loan shark isn't breaking the law when you get roughed up for non-payment.
- cocktailpeanuts 9y agoAlso, the thing is this is not really the loan shark situation. People who go to loan shark know exactly what they're getting into--borrowing money. People who signed up for unroll.me signed up because they got sick of all the the spammers and wanted to get away from all that easily. Most people including me, thought they would somehow monetize with ads or something like that, but never thought they would sell our info to 3rd parties like this. So No, it wasn't at all obvious what to expect.
- rhizome 9y agoIt would be an interesting challenge to popularize free services as loan-sharking your personal information.
- uzoodoo 9y agoYou have to be naive to give a service access to a trove of your private data and expect them to just leave it there...
- Spivak 9y agoAre we really at the point where people are being called naive for trusting a company to act ethically? It's no wonder people outside of tech hate us.
- uzoodoo 9y agoCompanies only act ethically if it has a potential to affect their bottom line and they have the foresight. It's not just tech, think pharmaceuticals or finance. As for naivete - as the old saying goes, the only free cheese is in a mousetrap.
- mdpopescu 9y agoAs a general rule, if you give an organization any kind of advantage over you, sooner or later someone in that organization will abuse it. The saying "power corrupts" is more correctly expressed as "power attracts the corruptible".