Triplebyte's CEO apologizes for planing to make user profiles public

Post by Chickenosaurus » Mon, May 25, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

Post by _8j50 » Mon, May 25, 2020, 7:18 PM UTC

olliej wrote: post #2

This feels like a case of being easier to apologize than to ask permission. Also it doesn’t require any amount of thinking to know that taking private data you were given in confidence and making in public is immoral. It should also be illegal.

Post by fsociety » Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

_8j50 wrote: post #3

olliej wrote: post #2

This feels like a case of being easier to apologize than to ask permission. Also it doesn’t require any amount of thinking to know that taking private data you were given in confidence and making in public is immoral. It should also be illegal.

Or a PR stunt. This sort of backpedaling has become very common to promote brand awareness