In what way did Path "get a pass?" They got a lot of negative press, and it brought attention to this issue (hence blog posts like this one). Sure, people got vocally angry and then quickly forgot about it, but that's just what people do. It even happens with far worse things, like police brutality or even unwise invasions of countries.
What specifically do you want to happen? You say you want "Silicon Valley" to "publicly and vocally [condemn] this type of activity," but what would that actually mean? Last I checked, "Silicon Valley" doesn't exist as some unified entity that can issue public statements. Heck, Hacker News is some approximation of the culture of Silicon Valley, and the front page was filled with rage.
Also, incidentally, I find it interesting that you cite a dictionary definition for a word that in no way corroborates your usage of the word, even though I think I agree with your underlying point. Path didn't "take and carry away" anything, and the contacts on your phone hardly constitute "personal goods or property."
Do a search on Twitter for the top tweets that link to Path's blog apology. Nearly every major figure in tech (99% in "The Valley") just accepted their apology and moved on.
Wouldnt have happened with other companies like Google or Facebook and shouldnt have happened here.
What's the alternative to accepting their apology and moving on? Short of organizing a mass exodus from Path, or pushing for legal action (which the author doesn't seem to be proposing), what can be done? The only alternative I can think of is for the community to keep repeating itself over and over again, like "We're still outraged."
> Wouldnt have happened with other companies like Google or Facebook and shouldnt have happened here.
People move on quickly after Google or Facebook screw up. There have been several times where people were enraged at Facebook's default privacy settings, and I never saw much discussion 24 hours after each story broke. The same goes with Apple: I can't recall any privacy-related issues other than the coordinates being stored on the phone, but a similar issue was all of the weird app rejections and fuzzy rules surrounding the App Store. Each time, people were outraged, and then the discussion cools down. I think this is inevitable, and I don't think it necessarily means that no good came out of the situation.
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In what way did Path "get a pass?" They got a lot of negative press, and it brought attention to this issue (hence blog posts like this one). Sure, people got vocally angry and then quickly forgot about it, but that's just what people do. It even happens with far worse things, like police brutality or even unwise invasions of countries.
What specifically do you want to happen? You say you want "Silicon Valley" to "publicly and vocally [condemn] this type of activity," but what would that actually mean? Last I checked, "Silicon Valley" doesn't exist as some unified entity that can issue public statements. Heck, Hacker News is some approximation of the culture of Silicon Valley, and the front page was filled with rage.
Also, incidentally, I find it interesting that you cite a dictionary definition for a word that in no way corroborates your usage of the word, even though I think I agree with your underlying point. Path didn't "take and carry away" anything, and the contacts on your phone hardly constitute "personal goods or property."
Thanks for the question Baddox.
Do a search on Twitter for the top tweets that link to Path's blog apology. Nearly every major figure in tech (99% in "The Valley") just accepted their apology and moved on.
Wouldnt have happened with other companies like Google or Facebook and shouldnt have happened here.
What's the alternative to accepting their apology and moving on? Short of organizing a mass exodus from Path, or pushing for legal action (which the author doesn't seem to be proposing), what can be done? The only alternative I can think of is for the community to keep repeating itself over and over again, like "We're still outraged."
> Wouldnt have happened with other companies like Google or Facebook and shouldnt have happened here.
People move on quickly after Google or Facebook screw up. There have been several times where people were enraged at Facebook's default privacy settings, and I never saw much discussion 24 hours after each story broke. The same goes with Apple: I can't recall any privacy-related issues other than the coordinates being stored on the phone, but a similar issue was all of the weird app rejections and fuzzy rules surrounding the App Store. Each time, people were outraged, and then the discussion cools down. I think this is inevitable, and I don't think it necessarily means that no good came out of the situation.