This is just an ad.
Does she know she's an ad?
We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
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Re: We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
#12> In 2024 alone, the FCC fined major U.S. carriers $200 million for illegally selling subscriber location data.
Was that "you didn't put that in your privacy policy" or "your policy is illegal"?
Re: We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
#13No one reads the fine print as they need the service.
Maybe you don't.
Some put off using the service and look for alternatives for as long as possible (often ever) if they're presented with tomes of legal documents to accept
Re: We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
#14"email us for a chance to win a free trip to Switzerland"
A chance to win is not enough motivation for me to actually write the email. I would assume it was simply an opportunity to collect email addresses, so I (personally) am not to likely to email them even if I did fully read their privacy policy.
Re: We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
#15"email us for a chance to win a free trip to Switzerland" A chance to win is not enough motivation for me to actually write the email. I would assume it was simply an opportunity to collect email addresses, so I (personally) am not to likely to email them even if I did fully read their privacy policy.
The fine print itself needs fine print, without any more details I'd assume that I have to pay for the plane ride there and they give me the crappiest hotel.
Re: We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
#16This is just an ad.
A really smart ad for a privacy focused company.
I, for one, appreciated finding this on HN as it gives me ideas for my own company where data privacy is a core feature.
Re: We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy
#17Previously: Cell service for the fairly paranoid (33 days ago, 191 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325
Nice privacy policy. They store the absolute minimum PII.
In The Netherlands some 6 million people’s PII was stolen from mobile service provider Odido after Salesforce warned them for the tactics used by hacker group Shinyhunters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226542