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So, deceiving your customers about how their data is being handled is a “good MVP”. With this much cynicism you must be an “enterpreneur”.
by tzahola 8y ago
So, deceiving your customers about how their data is being handled is a “good MVP”. With this much cynicism you must be an “enterpreneur”.
- nradov 8y agoWhere is the deception? Why should the customers care how the service is implemented on the back end? Unless the service lies and claims the data will never be seen by humans then they're not doing anything unethical. All that matters is whether customers are getting value from it.
- lordnacho 8y agoSure, if you present it that way, it's fine. As in "I'll do xyz for you, somehow". If you say you're taking people from A to B in a motor-powered cab but you actually come to pick them up in a rickshaw, that's wrong. People will naturally form expectations about the ride based on what you say.
- tzahola 8y agoBecause if a service offers to automatically tag my photos, I don’t expect random people looking at them. In fact, I don’t want anyone looking at my family photos other than those whom I explicitly gave permission to do so. Same applies to my voice recordings. Same applies to my receipts. Same applies to my health data.
- nradov 8y agoUnless your data is encrypted using keys that only you control then you have to assume that random people are looking at it. That is inherent in the nature of SaaS.
- tzahola 8y agoTechnically yes. But since GMail became widespread, there’s a tacit agreement that my data won’t be looked at by random humans.
- gaius 8y agoExcept that it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443056
- wool_gather 8y agoIs there? It's an inherent part of the service that Gmail software reads your mail (including until recently, for advertisement). How do you expect developers to work on that software without, at least occasionally, looking at the real inputs?