See, Privacy is a Big Deal

Anyone still think they can keep their head in the sand over privacy issues? Think again. Check out this post by 37Signals. Here’s the meat of it.

Taylor’s post about our growth in 2011 included a bunch of numbers showing how the pistons inside the 37signals engine are pounding faster, but it all got swept away by what seemed like an innocent side-note: The 100 millionth file was called cat.jpg.

Being as it is that the internet is constantly accused of being just an elaborate way of sharing pictures of cats, sharing pictures of cats, we thought that was funny. But it wasn’t. We shouldn’t make jokes about anything even remotely related to people’s data.

 
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