Take Your Privacy Seriously
A tech company rearranges the words of its privacy promise once caught mailing users' conversations as ransom notes.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-12-21-take-your-privacy-seriously/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "We take your privacy very seriously." B: "Oh, really? Then why does your app secretly record my conversations, convert them to text, and mail them to my friends in the style of ransom notes?" [note: "hEY therE guyS"]
A: "Sorry, what I meant to say is: 'Seriously, we take your very privacy.'" B: "Well, at least this conversation will make a great-looking ransom note."