[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Pittsburgh Tech Shop Open House tomorrow
- From: James Keener <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,"j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:31:40 -0400
I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting to limit the amount of information you
give out to people or that things won't change. I just think it's a dishonest
thing to claim someone is doing it when you have no reason to say so and to
complain that someone is using a service for something they shouldn't be
expected to write on their own.
Perhaps they don't want to be strictly associated with meetup and chose a more
mature platform for ticketing to use at other, non free events? Perhaps
techshop wants your address for their own marketing proposes!
Do you complain that tech shops credit card processor has your information? If
you chose not to use a service they've chosen to outsource to, contact them to
for alternate arrangements. If everyone who has the same concerns as you did so
they may see it as advantageous to change their policies.
Look, I'm all for limiting my digital footprint and being in control of my own
information. I take no issue with that! I take issue when unsupported and
unsubstantiated claims are just made up as the reason to do so.
Jim
On March 29, 2015 12:09:13 PM EDT, "j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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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