A privacy-first tech company discovered users rarely care about digital privacy
Ali Almossawi · #38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms · Aug 8, 2018 · at 14:16
Author Ali Almossawi discusses digital footprints, privacy trade-offs, and social media behavior with host Shane Parrish.
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“I remember I used to work for a company where where there Their kind of, their slogan was that we care about the user's privacy. And that's, and they valued privacy over everything else, including, you know, features and the ability to acquire data and so on. And then they discovered after you know, many, many years that the user doesn't care a lot about privacy.”
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