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You have to be naive to give a service access to a trove of your private data and expect them to just leave it there...
by uzoodoo 9y ago
You 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".