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Silo the sales and marketing department away from the real products like the person in that other thread was saying. Sales people can't be trusted with private data.
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously I wish companies would actually mean this and apply it proactively instead of just copy and pasting this in their apology after something like this happens.
> a new Facebook campaign was created that started firing a Facebook advertising pixel
I think they actually don't give any figment of a shit of their customers data if they are adding to the Facebook hoover of personal information.
I've seen so much anger over this issue that it's left me confused. Questions like how they can ever be trusted now. They could never be trusted. If the information is really that important, then it should be encrypted before being passed to any other service. Companies will screw up, the question is how are you going to be on the hook for it. The great thing about services is that you can pass the blame the service than if you had dealt with it in-house.
That said, this has been an embarrassing display for Backblaze and I hope they redouble their efforts on infosecurity. But mistakes happen. If there's a pattern, then that's a different story.
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously I wish companies would actually mean this and apply it proactively instead of just copy and pasting this in their apology after something like this happens.
Yet the first thing I'm greeted with is a cookie consent dialog with "allow all cookies" being the only prominent button.
If I don't want to allow the privacy-invading tracking cookies I need to click a less prominent piece of text called "manage cookies" and avoid clicking on another prominent button called "accept all cookies".
They do not give a shit about my privacy.
See: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
The smug tone in this joke of a response to the issue proves this.
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously I wish companies would actually mean this and apply it proactively instead of just copy and pasting this in their apology after something like this happens.
"Any company announcing that they take their users privacy seriously does not in any way."
So a name "Facebook law of privacy" ?
Security in services is all about liability and risk rather than an absolute guarantee. I've seen so much anger over this issue that it's left me confused. Questions like how they can ever be trusted now. They could never be trusted. If the information is really that important, then it should be encrypted before being passed to any other service. Companies will screw up, the question is how are you going to be on the…