"In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred"
So basically, I authorize a large number of my social applications (facebook, twitter, google,tumblr, youtube, mobile phone) and iftt gets a single unified linked feed of ALL my data, along with behavioural data too (ie. I like to receive emails and texts at 11pm), which it reserves the right to sell. And for a website that doesn't have an obvious charging mechanism, what else can I assume except that their revenue stream will be selling my data?
Data mining trojan in my opinion..... it's a shame it's actually such an attractive tool.
ps. if it turns out this is not the case, I actually like the tool - signed up and used it briefly. I'd be happy to be proved wrong because I do want to use it.
I'm not normally massively wary about privacy, so I don't think I'm being pedantic - it's probably the first time I've really complained about data privacy. I signed up, started using the tool, and halfway through a warning bell went off.
Eg. I use Facebook to signup for lots of sites (eg. AirBNB), but they get a basic level of read access to my data and I see that clearly. To use IFTTT effectively I would have to give them the highest level of read-write access to ALL my social networks, plus mobile phone information, personal preferences, email account, blog bla bla bla. Even Facebook or Google doesn't get this level of access (although they probably can extrapolate it from somewhere I guess).
I'm not one of these people making paranoid rants about facebook and privacy constantly, but I think IFTTT needs to inspire more confidence that my data is in safe hands before I'd hand over everything like that - seriously, it would solve a lot of problems for me and I'd love to use it!
eg. are they going to download all of my information from facebook/twitter bla bla as soon as I authenticate? Or do they just store it as/when they need it? Will it personally identify me, or will my data be aggregated anonymously. Who has access to my personal data? What's their revenue stream? Am I going to start getting spam text messages along with my notifications??
"In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred"
So basically, I authorize a large number of my social applications (facebook, twitter, google,tumblr, youtube, mobile phone) and iftt gets a single unified linked feed of ALL my data, along with behavioural data too (ie. I like to receive emails and texts at 11pm), which it reserves the right to sell. And for a website that doesn't have an obvious charging mechanism, what else can I assume except that their revenue stream will be selling my data?
Data mining trojan in my opinion..... it's a shame it's actually such an attractive tool.