The biggest lie on the internet - “We care about your privacy” …

[gom]

Really?

 

[markemark]

Well.....most places do care about your privacy. But not for any altruistic reasons, but because they are obliged to through GDPR obligations.

 

[ianrauk]

If you care about your privacy, don't use the internet.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Nah - biggest lie is that "your call is important to us"
and "we are trying to answer your call as quickly as possible"

I used to work on the computer systems of one of the first modern call centres
so I know what they do when they are really trying to answer your call as quickly as possible
as we used to answer the calls within 5 rings
EVERY call - even at Christmas


lying gits


but on the internet - there are bigger lies
even the politicians only come in second to some of them

religious organisations certainly do pretty well on the lie ratings - but others even beat them!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If you care about your privacy, don't use the internet.

And tell a bunch of relative strangers things about yourself on a random cycling forum.

 

[wafter]

They care about your privacy in terms of how they can best minimise it to exploit you for their own gain..

 

[BrumJim]

Nah - biggest lie is that "your call is important to us"
and "we are trying to answer your call as quickly as possible"

I used to work on the computer systems of one of the first modern call centres
so I know what they do when they are really trying to answer your call as quickly as possible
as we used to answer the calls within 5 rings
EVERY call - even at Christmas


lying gits


but on the internet - there are bigger lies
even the politicians only come in second to some of them

religious organisations certainly do pretty well on the lie ratings - but others even beat them!!

"We are experiencing an unexpectedly high volume of calls" or equivalent. Every time. No matter what time of day or night. Unexpected? Yeh, right.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

"We are experiencing an unexpectedly high volume of calls" or equivalent. Every time. No matter what time of day or night. Unexpected? Yeh, right.

Yup - Unexpectedly high volume of calls means
a number of calls that required more people to handle it than we want to pay for because we know this line os for people who will ring back

ANyone noticed that lines where you are wanting to buy things always get answered fastered than lines where you want to complain about something???

 

[Dogtrousers]

Well.....most places do care about your privacy. But not for any altruistic reasons, but because they are obliged to through GDPR obligations.

It's not only a desire to be compliant with GDPR that drives them, but also a desire not to end up in the papers with the words "data breach" next to their name. As the Co Op are finding out.

Although the two do go hand in hand. If you take care to comply with GDPR principles, you're probably less likely to be breached.

 

[gbb]

Not sure why, almost any statement by big business, telling me how much they care, whatever, is automatically registered as an empty statement by me. It's just words...

 

[Dogtrousers]

On the subject of corporate insincerity...

What used to annoy me was an automated announcement voice at a railway station expressing itself in the first person "The 8:28 to umpty-pump has been cancelled, I apologise for any inconvenience..."

"I apologise?" But you don't exist! You're a recording! That apology is doubly worthless.

I've not heard it lately. Maybe I wasn't alone in being annoyed.

 

[BrumJim]

On the subject of corporate insincerity...

What used to annoy me was an automated announcement voice at a railway station expressing itself in the first person "The 8:28 to umpty-pump has been cancelled, I apologise for any inconvenience..."

"I apologise?" But you don't exist! You're a recording! That apology is doubly worthless.

I've not heard it lately. Maybe I wasn't alone in being annoyed.

You certainly weren’t.

 

[Psamathe]

I think it's more complex than broad sweeping statements. It depends where any particular company positions itself and the nature of their user base. eg Facebook users are maybe less concerned about privacy as they are already voluntarily posting loads of info others regard as private; compared to eg Signal users whose choice of Signal indicates many are concerned about protecting their privacy.

Then add how companies deal with privacy failures. Some are smart enough and long term enough to realise that lie about your actions and there will always be whistleblowers. And when issues emerge into the public domain some bluster it out, put in place some trivial irrelevant option and might lose a few users but most will stay; others will suffer big time reputational damage that can impact their strategy and market positioning.

Ian