[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Pittsburgh Tech Shop Open House tomorrow
- From: "j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:09:13 -0400
On 3/28/15 22:28, James Keener wrote:
While I obviously cannot speak for them officially then or now, when I
worked for ShowClix that wasn't a practice they practiced.
I was the privacy and security guy at TiVo for ~10 years. I've spent
enough time with lawyers that I know how easy it is to change the rules
as needed to meet new business requirements.
Showclix doesn't need my name, address, and phone number for a free
ticket. Ok, email address I can understand, but now I'm in their
customer database. They have a vague privacy policy that doesn't state
what they do with that data, who internally has access to it, when it
will be purged, etc. They offer analytics, but those are easier to make
anonymous. (You want to get really bored, ask me about parsing 40G of
text files for a daily OBIEE report that turns likes/dislikes into bar
graphs. :-)
processing. Ticketing isn't Tech Shop's focus, and I wouldn't expect
I agree. Since they've been using Meetup for the past two years for
event organization why add a new ticket system?
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