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Pledging to stop and stopping are two very different things. Pledging to stop is pretty standard operating procedure whenever bad privacy practices cause a PR
by kerkeslager 7y ago
Pledging to stop and stopping are two very different things.
Pledging to stop is pretty standard operating procedure whenever bad privacy practices cause a PR stink, but it's quite common to see the same company with the same PR stink a year or two later. Pledges to stop often have more to do with the media cycle than any actual intention to stop.
- smolder 7y agoYeah, a good example of this is Pepsi pledging to remove Brominated Vegetable Oil from their drinks in response to a campaign by a young student that caught media attention. Years later, they never did any such thing.
- hanniabu 7y agoWhich really makes no sense when you think about it because it's already illegal in Europe and Japan so might as well just remove it altogether.
- wysifnwyg 7y agoIt all depends on the monetary difference doing so makes. If it's significantly cheaper, then they will continue to include it for legal markets.
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoRight. Last year (2018) they pledged to stop. Then didn't. Then this year they pledged again. We'll see... [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/after-broken-promise-att-says-itll-stop-selling-phone-location-data/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/after-broken-pro...