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Wow, they just paid $800K to FTC for being shady. They are betting that they become so big that these shenanigans don't matter later on.
by OGinparadise 13y ago
Wow, they just paid $800K to FTC for being shady.
They are betting that they become so big that these shenanigans don't matter later on.
- smacktoward 13y agoThey're doing it exactly backwards. The Right Way is to hold off on the massive user privacy violations until you become huge. At that point enforcing the laws against you becomes too difficult and expensive, so the government won't bother; and if some random AG tries to do it anyway you can afford to buy whatever changes to the laws you need to get him off your back. Problem solved.
- minimaxir 13y agoBut nowadays, due to all the competition for emerging startups, you can't become huge until you start invoking privacy violations. It's a Catch-22 of ethical misconduct!
- notahacker 13y agoThey're also being threatened with a class action lawsuit for doing what the OP described: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/197248/path-sued-for-sending-text-spam.html#axzz2RxxUCWRD http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/197248/path-su... I'm not sure the shenanigans won't come back to haunt them. Less trendy apps have been booted from Apple's App Store for a lot less.