Cofounder at Phaselab (https://phaselab.co)
Former product/exec at Cortico, Speakable, Chartbeat. Board member at @wxyc. Spent some time at WFMU, Internet Archive. Into thru-hiking.
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What is wrong with these people?!
"The OAG sent an inquiry letter to a national cremation services company, after receiving a complaint from a Connecticut resident who received an advertisement in the mail for cremation services after recently completing chemotherapy."
From the just released CT AG report on their first enforcement actions under the new state data privacy law: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/AG/Press_Releases/2024/CTDPA-Final-Report.pdf
"A spokeswoman for Intuit, Tania Mercado, criticized the direct file project as a “half-baked solution” and a waste of taxpayer money. “The direct file scheme is a solution in search of a problem,” she said. Intuit makes the TurboTax tax preparation software."
Oooookay Tania...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/your-money/irs-tax-filing-free-online.html
This email from the CEO of Carta is a crazy self-own. No I didn't hear about the upsetting allegations against your company, but I guess I'll just delete this email and move on, as instructed?
To amplify one of my colleagues, "anything less than an apology is insane".
As an aside, simple watermarks have been used successfully in the past... Rap Genius alternated straight/curly apostrophes to catch Google scraping their song lyrics (though they ended up losing in court):
https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-handed-stealing-lyrics-data
