<story><title>Credit cards have a privacy problem</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>Yup, do-no-evil Google buys your credit card data for advertising purposes: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-08-30&amp;#x2F;google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-08-30&amp;#x2F;google-an...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Companies need to start thinking of this less in the lens of &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; and more principle of least astonishment. Would users be surprised and angry to learn you do this? Then don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Credit cards have a privacy problem</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;We don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;sell&lt;/i&gt; your data, we &lt;i&gt;share&lt;/i&gt; it.&amp;quot; -all the companies involved&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one thinking there might be some Clapper-level double-speak going on here? Why would these company share admittedly valuable data without being compensated?&lt;p&gt;A question for contract lawyers: can I sell something (say an API or quarterly report) that &amp;quot;incidentally&amp;quot; includes customer data and get away with saying I&amp;#x27;m not &amp;quot;selling customer data&amp;quot;?</text></comment>