Lesson learned: don't expect a business built on breach of standards of conduct to be sustainable. Monitoring call records and targeting ads based on them soun

Lesson learned: don't expect a business built on breach of standards of conduct to be sustainable. Monitoring call records and targeting ads based on them sounds very close to what the NSA has been exploiting in mobile apps (c.f. revelations a couple days ago). Atrocious. I blame both Pingjam and the app developers for callously abusing end-user trust and integrating with such a shady third-party. This also reminds me of top comment on the $50,000 Twitter name social engineering attack article[1]: setup a list of vendors that have pathetic security practices, but in this case the list would be of apps that integrate shady third-parties. I'm not sure if these guys are super-slick sheisters or legitimately clueless. This 'woe-is-us' blog post, written in the style of the humble lean innocent entrepreneur, certainly strikes me as disingenuous. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142523