Airbnb sells not just metadata, but actual messages to third parties? And Yelp sells what I eat?? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html …pic.twitter.com/xoERq0MqG8
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Airbnb has to give the messages to Sift if they can give them to you, which means they are outside of Airbnb’s control. That is… bad
That's true of any third party provider -- anyone they let put JavaScript on their pages can slurp up data. I'm almost certain they would have contractual clauses on how this data is to be used and protected.
For a company, it’s critical to assess and limit what any provider is allowed to do and I would have expected Airbnb and Yelp to draw the line at metadata as opposed to content. Even if Sift promises to be careful, the data is still outside of Airbnb’s control
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