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Using opt-in for features that worsen user privacy or security is gross behavior. It should be disqualifying for any company that handles sensitive information
by rurp 3y ago
Using opt-in for features that worsen user privacy or security is gross behavior. It should be disqualifying for any company that handles sensitive information and they deserve all of the blame for the negative effects that follow. Trying to weasel out of that blame makes the company even more sleazy.
- thfuran 3y agoYou'd prefer they be opt out so privacy is only available to the most attentive?
- anon373839 3y agoThere is confusion about the terms “opt-in” and “opt-out” which companies have gladly exploited. See Google Fi recently with a disclosure stating that Google will “opt you in” to their customer data-selling policy.
- bee_rider 3y agoI think we shouldn’t describe this as a confusion or ambiguity or anything like that. “Opt you in” is simply a nonsense phrase. Opting in means to proactively agree to something. It is impossible to be opted into something. They are just lying, and you know they know they are doing something unethical, because they wouldn’t need to make up nonsense phrases otherwise.