{"id":20762,"date":"2018-03-01T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20762"},"modified":"2018-03-02T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:57:17","slug":"respecting-privacy-at-basecamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/respecting-privacy-at-basecamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Respecting Privacy at Basecamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/respecting-privacy-at-basecamp-e29dae0a5908\">Noah Lorang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/respecting-privacy-at-basecamp-e29dae0a5908\">\n<p>Many companies, especially startups, review every signup manually and reach out to interesting looking customers. I get lots of these emails, and every one leaves me unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of companies will also use the fact that you signed up as permission to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hqtrivia\/status\/918102731046506498\">identify you as a customer for marketing purposes<\/a>. Over the years, I&rsquo;ve had to ask no fewer than a dozen companies to remove Basecamp from their marketing material.<\/p>\n<p>I find both of these practices to be distasteful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think companies should promote you as a customer without asking.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Lorang: Many companies, especially startups, review every signup manually and reach out to interesting looking customers. I get lots of these emails, and every one leaves me unsettled. Tons of companies will also use the fact that you signed up as permission to identify you as a customer for marketing purposes. Over the years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[333,663,355,96],"class_list":["post-20762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-basecamp","tag-marketing","tag-privacy","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}