Hey, Ryan (author of the piece) here. You are clearly making a lot of assumptions about me and my work! Nothing I've built or worked on (gdgt, Engadget, etc.)

Hey, Ryan (author of the piece) here. You are clearly making a lot of assumptions about me and my work! Nothing I've built or worked on (gdgt, Engadget, etc.) has ever collected or used user data or social information in any untoward way. You'd be right to assume there have been opportunities to do so, but that's simply not the kind of business I'm interested in being in.