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Thanks William, and sorry for the wrong accusation. Super embarrassed; I read so many comments on that thread I must've conflated two.

• jka 8y ago
  Thanks for speaking up alehul; for what it's worth, I think it can often be interesting to later reflect on these moments of apparent shame and embarrassment, especially in the context of attempting to speak truth to power. Accountability and transparency is important long-term; as is questioning possible abuse or misuse of power. Don't be afraid to continue to do so! Also, always use Hanlon's razor, but it's getting harder and harder to tell genuine conversations from stage-managed ones online, unfortunately. It's the logical extreme of pg's article 'The Submarine'[0]. [0] - http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
• ryanackley 8y ago
  Here is one discussion from a so-called whistleblower I was involved in. I will let you decide on the ethics[1]. I'm in the ACH space and I personally know a merchant who planned on using them for account verification for point of sale ACH payments. This merchant also planned on grabbing transaction history while they were in there for I don't know what. Analytics maybe? I have no idea if they ever went through with their plan. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692291
  • bdcravens 8y ago
    This was the merchant, and not Plaid. While Plaid gives such merchants a lot of power, I don't think the ethics issue lies with Plaid (though you could make a good argument that they should grant limited access, and full API access only on a more restricted whitelist basis)
    • galvanizer 8y ago
      So according to you Facebook is not responsible for Cambridge Analytica scandal.