You realize that you're responding in a thread about OkCupid deceiving users and sharing data with 3rd parties right?
34. In response to this request, Humor Rainbow gave the Data Recipient access to nearly three million OkCupid user photos. Humor Rainbow’s President and Chief Technology Officer were directly involved in facilitating the data transfer.
35. In addition to user photos, Humor Rainbow shared other personal data with the Data Recipient, including each user’s demographic and location information.
> I don't think there was anything fucked up about it, as long as it was all anonymized and at scale
I'm confused why "as long as" carries so much weight here considering the article that started this discussion. You seem to trust that they stopped their privacy fuckups with third parties. I don't know where your trust comes from.
I'm saying that NLP over messages, and sharing with third parties, are completely orthogonal. It's not about trust, it's two different topics. The different topic was started by the original commenter. Because people often make comments on HN that are related but separate. As NLP and third-party sharing are.
My privacy problem exists with third parties AND internally within OkCupid. At some point, running NLP over messages necessitates that an analyst or ops person actually has to look at the underlying data at some point.
The 3rd party stuff just exudes something like a privacy "code smell" -- "orthogonality" doesn't really matter to my point because 1. these things don't exist in a vacuum and 2. stench has a way of permeating through layers, regardless of how orthogonal underwear is.
Like, do you trust that OKCupid staff didn't download user messages to their laptops?
