Cornell Professor Replies to ChangeTip CEO, Asks For His Commitment to Privacy
A few weeks back, Cornell Professor Emin Gün Sirer accused the popular social tipping platform ChangeTip for lacking well-intentioned privacy policies, due to the fact that the company links users' data on social media platforms like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter; thus, making their private information vulnerable to interested parties. ChangeTip's CEO Nick Sullivan however rubbished the claims made by Prof Sirer and told CoinDesk about their policy which clearly says that they will not sell users' data to third parties without their permission. He further showed-off his professional track....
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A Cornell professor is done hearing about how bad ChangeTip feels when he called them out for their, what he believes to be, potentially dangerous business model. A few weeks ago, Emin Gün Sirer said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death due to the fact that the company has the ability to link user data on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit directly to corresponding bitcoin addresses. Because ChangeTip's parent company recently raised $3.5 million in seed funding, Sirer believes the company will eventually cripple under the financial pressure and sell user data to interested parties. As....
Emin Gün Sirer, the Cornell professor who recently said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death has returned to the offensive on the issue of privacy. ChangeTip CEO Nick Sullivan recently criticized Sirer´s statements saying that it felt “like a charity being yelled at”. What Sullivan did not do though was to explain how ChangeTip could even remotely be considered a “charity”. Sirer points out that not only is ChangeTip a for profit corporation but its direct links to social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit almost guarantee that at some point user data will be....
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ChangeTip's humble origins began in the earlier days of Bitcoin, when it wasn't as strong of a talking point of conversation for social analysts today. ChangeTip, when it was just BitcoinTip, saw early on that the Bitcoin community wanted and needed a way to show off how the technology works and promote it to people through social media. To those that may not have seen a ChangeTip bitcoin transaction take place on Reddit or Twitter, ChangeTip is a tool to send bitcoins quickly and efficiently to one another in the form of "tips." If people see something they like online and want to show....