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Stealth startup Privacy Labs raises $4M to give consumers control of their data

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Re: Stealth startup Privacy Labs raises $4M to give consumers control of their data

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4 mils seed fund with no product or traction? are they trying to repeat the path color App took? http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/color-shuts-down/#9QwfKgsSEGq...

  4 mils seed fund with no product or traction?
... or Head of Marketing, or Head of Design (per their Openings)

Re: Stealth startup Privacy Labs raises $4M to give consumers control of their data

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> a stealth-stage startup that wants to enable internet users to “regain control” of their personal data, has landed a $4 million seed funding round... Other investors that participated include Lemnos Labs, Liquid 2 Ventures, CrunchFund*,...

So Arrington is promoting one of his investments on one of his sites. The investment claims to "give consumers control of their data," but the site gives that data to at least 9 companies: AOL, Facebook, Gravatar, Parsely, Taboola, Tinypass, Twitter, Vidible, and Wordpress.