Profit and Complacency: We Make Our Children Vulnerable Online

submitted 6 years ago by aladdincruz to news

In one episode of the HBO comedy “Silicon Valley,” the CEO of fictional startup Pied Piper, Dinesh Chugtai, found out that their messaging app, PiperChat, committed a massive data breach of its young users. Later, PiperChat was bought by a new owner, who soon closed the app after realizing he faced massive fines because of those privacy violations. While the hit TV series took a satirical look at the tech industry, it raised the real and serious matter of online privacy. For the complete article here.