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Typical of SV to focus solely on the business viability of a firm to the detriment of everything else. I’d like to work somewhere knowing that I have a clean conscience. Why not add:

Where do you get your data from?

If your data is sourced from users of your product, do you tell them what you’re collecting?

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Huh? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of things one should consider when contemplating taking a job. That an article focuses on things on one particular category (business viability) does not imply that the author thinks that things from other categories (such as ethical considerations) are less important.

They essentially all say "tell" their users where they are getting the data. It's in the privacy policy. But people don't read it.

Exactly. Informing the user does nothing except maybe clear your conscience. Expecting the user to extrapolate to how you will use that data, what will be inferred from it, what risks come with centralizing and storing it, all of that is not the users job. It’s the job of the collector to be as conservative as possible. Any company that treats users privacy as a resource to be extracted is not somewhere I want to work.

    There many other factors to optimize for, like the people you’ll work with, the technologies you’ll work on, commute, etc.

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