The Path and Pinterest logos are way too similar. I get them confused all the time and it drives me crazy!
You're actually saying you would fire an employee for pointing out that you're asking them to violate a Federal law?
I'm really disappointed by the quality of the reporting here.
The $800K fine was for allowing 12 year olds the create accounts (a bug which was fixed long before the FTC got involved), but the entire post makes it sound like it's all about addressbook gate.
The FTC conducted an investigation because of the address book scandal, but the $800K had nothing to do with that.
Imagine taking your ex-employer to court for unfair dismissal. You: "I was fired because I said what they asked me to do was a violation of Federal law. " Judge: "Do you have any evidence for that? " You: "They just got an $800,000 fine".
So they don't get fined for stealing user data unless it's from children? What's the difference???
Why is that this story is receiving so much coverage and when Google was fined the BIGGEST amount of money in FTC's history all news outlets were like crickets? I see this as a proof of Google's monopolistic and complacent attitudes. Path's developers are being torn to shreds while Google is collecting all the money back to their bank accounts while spying on users.