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@ThIronYuppie Let me say first of all that I really appreciate your sincerity and belief in the Goodness of the company that you work for. The issue is not insi
by pm90 8y ago
@ThIronYuppie Let me say first of all that I really appreciate your sincerity and belief in the Goodness of the company that you work for. The issue is not insincerity, but:
* a lack of trust in corporations in today's economic and political climate and
* the skyrocketing growth of the online advertising business, which has made user data quite literally the gold mines of the digital age
The incentives today are very very well aligned for a corporation to sell user data. Even if a company may mostly be made of good people, without explicitly written contracts or declarations of any kind, a Company can change internal policies rather quickly. Maybe there will be a manager who sees the selling of that data as a way to boost profit and rise within the company. Maybe the company sells that division along with their data.
- kohtatsu 8y agos/gold/oil/
- ionised 8y agoYou say the issue is not insincerity but I beg to differ. Microsoft has never been particularly sincere about the reasons it does the things it does. It has been a deceitful bully of a company for a long time. Indeed, one of the main reasons why there is so little trust in corporations is because they are so insincere, anti-consumer and lacking in any kind of social conscience.
- TheIronYuppie 8y agoI get it - I do. I'm a recent returnee to MSFT, after many years working not at MSFT, and I remember what it was like. We can't rewind and fix the past, but we absolutely can be better working forward, and we will.
- TheIronYuppie 8y agoI totally get it. We're a big company, and you're right to question EVERYTHING. All I can say is we'll try and earn your trust every day and laws like GDPR make sure that we're on the hook to do so. Put another way - we CANNOT change this without EXPLICITLY notifying you.