I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
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Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#2Here is the full text of the email: https://community.expensify.com/discussion/7632/protect-demo...
It looks like he used his access to millions of customer emails to spam them with his political views.
> I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it.
This whole thing just reeks of narcissism and delusion. And that's saying something, since I mostly agree with him otherwise. I can't imagine this did anything but piss off a lot of people.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#3The tech governance issue here is that a commercial organisation used personal information provided for an unrelated purpose for political lobbying without consent.
Presumably some of the many recipients of the email are both US voters and EU residents with dual citizenship.
In that case would this be a breach of the GDPR?
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#4Here is the full text of the email: https://community.expensify.com/discussion/7632/protect-demo... It looks like he used his access to millions of customer emails to spam them with his political views. > I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it. This whole thing just reeks of narcissism and delusion. And that's saying something, since I mostly agree with him otherwise. I can…
Good lord. I've seen 'political' messages, but this one takes the cake. Narcissism is right.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#5Here is the full text of the email: https://community.expensify.com/discussion/7632/protect-demo... It looks like he used his access to millions of customer emails to spam them with his political views. > I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it. This whole thing just reeks of narcissism and delusion. And that's saying something, since I mostly agree with him otherwise. I can…
> I can't imagine this did anything but piss off a lot of people.
I had the same reaction. I think Trump is probably the worst President in history so obviously I'll be voting for Biden, but I still agree with most of this person's reply letter.
If a vendor decided to misuse information that I trusted them with, or tried to tell me who to vote for, they'd instantly become an ex-vendor - even when I agree with their opinion.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#6"But this time it's different!" Such, I imagine, are the thoughts of "Team Blue". Next time, Team Red. Repeat ad nauseum.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#7It's indicative of just how broken the times we live in are that the CEO of a financial company feels righteous in abusing their customer's private data in the way that David Barrett has here.
Worse still, he had his official company marketing account go and hype up everyone who replied to him on Twitter applauding his actions here.
It's not surprising to see a tech CEO feeling so empowered to do so, given how widespread similar political behaviour has become in recent years.
One could say that these tech companies have egregiously overplayed their hand in the past few years and personally, even as someone sitting in the middle with little skin in the game, I hope the coming years sees the same entities metaphorically have their fingers, nay the whole hand, shattered. The alarm has been sounded and it is time to reign this industry in.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#8The tech governance issue here is that a commercial organisation used personal information provided for an unrelated purpose for political lobbying without consent. Presumably some of the many recipients of the email are both US voters and EU residents with dual citizenship. In that case would this be a breach of the GDPR?
Yea there didn't seem to be much filtering of the email recipient list... I saw a handful of people on Twitter that said they received the email even though they're not even US Citizens. GDPR violations seem likely.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#9The tech governance issue here is that a commercial organisation used personal information provided for an unrelated purpose for political lobbying without consent. Presumably some of the many recipients of the email are both US voters and EU residents with dual citizenship. In that case would this be a breach of the GDPR?
Yea there didn't seem to be much filtering of the email recipient list... I saw a handful of people on Twitter that said they received the email even though they're not even US Citizens. GDPR violations seem likely.
I am an European citizen employed by a subsidiary of an US company and I received that email. Definitely a GDPR violation.
Re: I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
#10The tech governance issue here is that a commercial organisation used personal information provided for an unrelated purpose for political lobbying without consent. Presumably some of the many recipients of the email are both US voters and EU residents with dual citizenship. In that case would this be a breach of the GDPR?
Yea there didn't seem to be much filtering of the email recipient list... I saw a handful of people on Twitter that said they received the email even though they're not even US Citizens. GDPR violations seem likely.
Neither I nor the company I work for are American (both Euros) and yet every one of us in the company, many thousands globally, have received this email today.
Thankfully it seems to have went directly to spam, as I had to look to find it, but the point remains.