Earlier this month, Paige Collins of the Electronic Freedom Foundation published an intriguing article calling for openness on an online dating application. Openness, that is, about how much of a customer's very private data might or might not be revealed to third parties.
But, to digress a little, I'm watching a Monsieur Spade miniseries on Netflix and am baffled by how a great deal of "open kimono" stuff advances the slow moving plot. Clive Owen swims in the nude again and again, and we get hovering drone footage of his lily white buttocks as he does a languid crawl with his arms and drags his feet. Perhaps there is a plot hole down there; if he swims daily in the buff under the sun of southern France, his butt should be nut brown.
Presumably, Sam Spade has something about which to be confident, but like the shark in Jaws, the threat remains unseen by the audience, but we know it's there by the uncomfortable reactions of fully clothed visitors to Spade's territory when Spade drops his towel or deliberately postpones putting it around his waist after his swim.
Back to the EFF concerns about privacy and Bumble, as explained by Paige Collins.
The bottom line is that EFF has joined Mozilla Foundation and 11 other organizations urging Bumble to do a better job protecting user privacy by
- Clarifying in unambiguous terms whether or not Bumble sells customer data.
- Identifying what data or personal information Bumble sells, and to which partners, identifying particularly if any companies would be considered data brokers.
- Strengthening customers’ consent mechanism to opt-in to the sharing or sale of data, rather than having to "opt-out.”
In August, 2021, Security Magazine discussed a problem with "location" functionality. When one uses a dating application, it might be useful to know how far away from one a potentially interesting person lives, but these apps can reveal where one is in real time, which is entirely TMI.
Open kimonos, skinny dipping, inadequate privacy protections.... and now we come to Drip Pricing.
What is that? The legal bloggers of Troutman Pepper discuss dark patterns, drip pricing and Stub Hub.
In a nutshell, drip pricing seems to be where one price is prominently advertised, but during the purchase process and often with a countdown clock adding urgency and Fear Of Missing Out, additional fees are tacked on for "fulfillment" and "service". There could be taxes, too. And, maybe, fees for paying by credit card.
The true cost of the purchase is hidden, and comes as a nasty surprise late in the transaction.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
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