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Service Faces Backlash Over a Widespread Practice: Selling User Data
- stingraycharles 9y agoThis was mentioned as part of an Uber story, and HN picked up on this detail as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397
- lithos 9y agoWhen people actually learn what "cult of free" actually costs they get angry, then forget really fast. It's actually kind of amusing to watch, especially when older media keeps it in the spotlight.
- pacala 9y agoPaying doesn't help. You end up with the money and your personal info gone.
- sambull 9y agoIt happens to institutional users also. Sometimes without their knowledge. Things like running a competitors data through a different competitors model and giving them the results, and not telling the source. I've seen this exact issue where a big lender was doing this to others lenders. Through a third party service that replaces whole departments of reviewers.
- surak 9y agoI hear rumors from security researchers as well regarding Tinder. They allegedly seem to leek a lot of personal info to 3rd parties.