Alan Jacobs


not through me

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If you are using Clubhouse, and you agreed to their not-quite-but-almost demand to share all your contacts with them, and I am one of your contacts, then I am extremely unhappy with you. It is unethical for Clubhouse to ask for that information, and unethical of you to provide it.

Further reading on this: Vox, Inc., OneZero. [UPDATE: This Ars Technica report is comprehensively damning.] 

“Oh come on,” you say, “These big tech companies have a dozen ways to get your information.” Probably true. But your motto, and mine, should be, Let surveillance capitalism come into the world – but not through me.