• Storksforlegs@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like the organization might not have been aware that this fundraising tool was doing this, that’s even worse. They think they’re providing a service to people and raising money meanwhile the people they’re helping are unwittingly being tracked - who knows how this information could be misused by insurers/employers/etc etc.

    I wonder what recourse the organizations could take? A lawsuit? Going to the media?

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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      I wonder what recourse the organizations could take? A lawsuit? Going to the media?

      it seems very unlikely, at face, that they’d have legal standing to sue here (for a variety of reasons but the biggest one is probably lack of a law being violated due to US privacy law being so poor) so probably bad PR at most to be honest