> Streetlend made its money by selling your privacy data to advertisers through Amazon. So when you put up a power drill for lend, people would see power drills for sale at local shops, based on their online presence harvested through stuff like their Facebook account.
If you mean he just slapped some Amazon ads on his site to support his side project, then accusing that guy of "selling your privacy data" requires quite a bit of mental gymnastics and is a pretty dishonest description of the facts.
The blame here is wholly with the users for putting their data online in the first place (really, you can go a very long way with [email protected]!) and especially Facebook for providing the framework that enables this all.
If you mean he just slapped some Amazon ads on his site to support his side project, then accusing that guy of "selling your privacy data" requires quite a bit of mental gymnastics and is a pretty dishonest description of the facts.
The blame here is wholly with the users for putting their data online in the first place (really, you can go a very long way with [email protected]!) and especially Facebook for providing the framework that enables this all.
*edited for grammar