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Isn't this kind of a privacy breach if it's true? Why does Coinbase get access to emails of people that have applied to YC? I'm not generally a data privacy zea
by swanson 12y ago
Isn't this kind of a privacy breach if it's true? Why does Coinbase get access to emails of people that have applied to YC? I'm not generally a data privacy zealot or anything, but that seems sketchy that YC would provide a batch list of emails to companies for what is essentially advertising/spam...
- chc 12y agoCoinbase is a YC company. One of the primary functions of YC is networking. In that light, it seems pretty reasonable to me for YC to put alumni in contact with each other. I don't know if this is the case, but there might even be a founders mailing list. That would not surprise me.
- swanson 12y agoI understand a mailing list for alumni, but this is for applicants. I have never applied to YC - but is there a checkbox that says "It's cool to share my email with the 500+ YC alum companies"?
- crazypyro 12y agoI received this after applying for the internships for YC companies, so yeah, in a way, everyone that applied certainly did give YC and all their alumni their email address, seeing as that was part of the application.
- gesman 12y agoI'd accept every single spam email that includes $1 in it. Seems fair.