@vmarinelli

109 Followers
102 Following
10 Posts
Late-blooming polyglot / bewildered Twitter refugee
you want me to go outside and get some sun? the thing that killed Icarus?!

“The most unethical thing I was asked to build at #Twitter

An unnamed telco wanted to pay for identifiable activity data.

All. activity.

“We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

I massively doubt Musk would say no to this. #privacy

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589700721121058817.html

Thread by @stevekrenzel on Thread Reader App

@stevekrenzel: With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵 To set the stage, this was...…

To quote a late friend from an earlier, Twitter-based epoch, "I don't have a fart's idea what I'm doing anymore." (Also, I don't even remember having signed up for this account, but apparently I did.)

(RIP "fedge" and that once-great platform, recently acquired by the odious Elon Musk, having already been thoroughly ruined by Trump and his minions, anyhow. Ah well. We had a good run, I guess?)

ANYHOW, like Jason Sweeney (who may or may not be on this here platform already) recently observed: