| Sorry. But no. https://considertheconsumer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/I... CTO or not, that which is described here is nothing but predatory, and if you think there is anything ethical about it, or that the ends justified the means, you're not looking far enough down the road. You have violated so many long standing regulations, that I am struck dead at my own ability to put myself in shoes that would be able to converge on justifying and managing that business unit knowing what I was doing. You do not embrace deceptive practices.
You do not usurp and defraud users by accessing their data in excess of what you immediately need to do just what you told them you'd be doing.
You do not commit crimes and hide them long enough, counting on getting "too big to be held to account for it". You traded your integrity the moment you signed on and okayed that without resistance. You betrayed an implicit mandate to do fair and non-deceptive business in every jurisdiction in the United States. Maybe you're surrounded by people who aren't grounded enough to call a spade a spade, but consider yourself notified by someone who is. Ya done goofed. Willfully or not I don't have the evidence to support, but ya did. It is my personal hope that Plaid's settlement is rejected, because people deserve to have the character of this group brought into the light of day. Whether Plaid comes out squeaky clean, or the rest of the industry gets indicted for their refusal to integrate, necessitating the measure, I don't care. People need to know though. What is detailed in the impending settlement is not at all acceptable. |