"email us for a <i>chance</i> to win a free trip to Switzerland"<p>A chance to win is not enough motivation for me to actually write the email. I would assume it was simply an opportunity to collect email addresses, so I (personally) am not to likely to email them even if I did fully read their privacy policy.
The implication here is kind of funny in that even if you <i>do</i> write legal stuff in language that your customers can understand, most of them still won't read it. And to be fair, I'm guilty of this more often than not.
> In 2024 alone, the FCC fined major U.S. carriers $200 million for illegally selling subscriber location data.<p>Was that "you didn't put that in your privacy policy"?
This is just an ad.
"This is just a common publicity stunt."<p>"No, it is an <i>exceptional</i> publicity stunt."
But it's a <i>nice</i> ad!
Does she know she's an ad?
Previously:<p><i>Cell service for the fairly paranoid</i> (33 days ago, 191 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325</a>
Smart PR move and motivation to read more privacy policies.<p>Looks like they only offer one plan, $99/month, which is pretty steep but must offset what other carriers make selling customer info. That's about double what I'm paying now but I do like the idea.
No one reads the fine print as they need the service.
I read the fine print and plenty of others do too. Corporations have convinced people they're powerless and illiterate when they're usually not.
Maybe you don't.<p>Some put off using the service and look for alternatives for as long as possible (often ever) if they're presented with tomes of legal documents to accept