• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What’s the last “bombshell scandal that would ruin a company” that actually ruined a company?

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Unroll.me was a service that would scan your email and clean up your inbox. The New York Times reported that the company was gathering sales receipts emails, anonymizing them, and selling them to rival companies; for example Uber paid them to hand over all the sales receipts they could on Lyft rides in people’s mailboxes. The bad press made them eventually sell the company to Slice, mainly for the email archives they amassed.

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        2 months ago

        As a business you can be a maverick against many laws, just not the laws regarding finance.

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        2 months ago

        Cambridge Analytica, but only because what they were doing was so monumentally illegal. I’m sure the government would have let them get away with it if they could have thought of a way out for them. A lot of them mates were involved in that scandal.