TSR Privacy Violation
Inge:
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and then posted their email address and username in the private staff forum. Hardly a breech of privacy laws.
I have no idea what the law says about this, but my sense of morals is offended. When people give an email address to join a site, they expect the admins to be able to see it. They don't expect non-admin content creators to also see it. If it had been shared only between the people who were supposed to see it, there would have been no need to post the details on the forum, the admins could have looked at the database for themselves.
Treble:
Quote from: jfade on 2009 April 04, 00:28:45
and then posted their email address and username in the private staff forum. Hardly a breech of privacy laws.
Plus, they didn't just post email addresses and usernames--they posted some people's real names, even admitted by Steve himself over at TSR. There was no need for that and it is considered a privacy violation. I could actually understand sharing usernames of known filesharers (not condone, mind you). After all, people freely share the usernames of known forum trolls. But to post real names is going too far.
Minena:
Has anyone else gotten this while simply browsing at TSR?
http://minena.prismbaby.com/images/ScreenShot166.png
I didn't click on anything but "next" for the next page and BAM, there it was.
J. M. Pescado:
While it's true that visiting TSR can harm your computer, this looks like something that is just caused by crappy adware spam links from the advertisers they link to.
Minena:
Thanks...I wondered if it was from all the craptastic ads they have.
I only go to browse for pictures of what I will eventually get at the booty.
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