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When co-founders disagree about user privacy rights and data ownership

Our startup's terms of service give us broad rights to user data and my co-founder thinks that's just how tech works, but I'm increasingly uncomfortable with what we're claiming we can do with people's information. We need to decide if we're going to change our policies before our next funding round, and she thinks I'm being naive about business realities.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people building something together have fundamentally different views about where individual privacy ends and business necessity begins.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Rights — their origin and their limits?”

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