Did We Just Sell Your Data? Others Are Doing It!
I've just had a call with a representative of reputed institute in India. They were (or still are?) interested in advertising on CrazyEngineers and their request was that we sell all your email IDs to them for a cost (several thousand Rupees).
We denied saying it's against our policy and we respect our members' privacy. However, the representative insisted that since every other website they're dealing with is doing it, we should have not problems doing it as well.
The representative kept on repeating that selling user's data won't do any harm to users and it'll indeed benefit them. He mentioned that users won't care about their own privacy and don't mind their email ID was being shared and it made a good 'business sense' for us to sell your email IDs.
We denied and the deal was over. I'm saddened that this is how businesses are done in India. Neither the users care about their policy nor the 'buyers'.
What's your take on this?
