We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy

fallinghawks 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

"email us for a chance to win a free trip to Switzerland"

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.

	▲	krackers 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The fine print itself needs fine print, without any more details I'd assume that I have to pay for the plane ride there and they give me the crappiest hotel.

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cryzinger 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The implication here is kind of funny in that even if you do 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.

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altairprime 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Previously:

Cell service for the fairly paranoid (33 days ago, 191 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325

	▲	smartbit 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Nice privacy policy. They store the absolute minimum PII. In The Netherlands some 6 million people’s PII was stolen from mobile service provider Odido after Salesforce warned them for the tactics used by hacker group Shinyhunters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226542

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Archonical 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is just an ad.

	▲	raldi 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"This is just a common publicity stunt." "No, it is an exceptional publicity stunt."
	▲	skrebbel 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		But it's a nice ad!
	▲	tosti 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Does she know she's an ad?
	▲	jgorn 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A really smart ad for a privacy focused company. I, for one, appreciated finding this on HN as it gives me ideas for my own company where data privacy is a core feature.

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focusedone 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Smart PR move and motivation to read more privacy policies.

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.

	▲	aidenn0 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's more than double what I'm paying for 3 phone lines now.

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soopypoos 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> In 2024 alone, the FCC fined major U.S. carriers $200 million for illegally selling subscriber location data.

Was that "you didn't put that in your privacy policy" or "your policy is illegal"?

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kitesay 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

No one reads the fine print as they need the service.

	▲	lynndotpy 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	g-b-r 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe you don't. 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