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Someone changed the title. The original submission title matched the article title [1]. Feels like an intentional re-characterization to place the blame on the
by altdatathrow 7y ago
Someone changed the title. The original submission title matched the article title [1]. Feels like an intentional re-characterization to place the blame on the ones purchasing the data, as opposed to the ones harvesting and selling. This journalist is the same who exposed Jumpshot [2] for similar tactics (selling highly-sensitive user-level data), and a few days later the entire company (~230 employees) shut down.
I asked about a similar problem [3] on a "Who's Hiring" last week to a YC-funded company and dang was quick to detach that comment, as it was off-topic for the context of the thread.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+inurl%3A22291484 https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-se...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229267