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@Missy

Don’t put words in my mouth. I said it would be well received, not that MSA or Liz (I’m assuming that’s her name) are responsible for this, or that she doesn’t work hard for the community. Loyalty when it is called for is admirable but outsized defensiveness is a waste of energy. At some point, choosing roundabout methods like prepaid cards and alternate emails become too much hassle to be worthwhile. Are we sure that is the cumbersome future we want to maintain or to normalize for American consumers?

As with any area of human endeavor, there are such things as best practices, and many of these subscription box companies punch far below weight when it comes to privacy issues. This must have been a longstanding concern that I did not know the extent of before I began to sign up for some of them largely due to the influence of this website.

I was merely pointing out that someone with so much influence would be in a relatively effective position to spearhead the effort to usher in a safer online transaction culture. Subscription Box Era 2.0. Consumer Data Privacy Rights 2.0, brought to you by MSA. I just thought that was a prettier vision of the future.

You know what, now that you’ve mentioned it though, maybe MSA *is* partly (though not directly) responsible. The website may have been born as a hobby, but has now clearly grown to be at least a somewhat profitable venture. And any profit-seeking or break-even-seeking venture is naturally held to more stringent moral standards.

The relevant question when it comes to who will foot the lawyer bill (if any, because pro-bono ones exist) is not whether dear old Liz should ever have to pay for anything because the community loves her too much to stand by while such indignities occur (eyeroll), but whether this website could afford to reach out to lawyers even if they do cost money, and whether there is any moral argument to be made for this given the current chaos surrounding consumer data policies and how effective MSA is at inspiring paying consumers.

I do not think it would sit well with me if I knowingly and regularly sent hundreds or thousands of enthusiastic paying subscribers into the ready and waiting hands of companies who apparently have either malicious intent or sheer incompetence or both with regards to consumer data privacy.

I’m all for saving money, but at the cost of the assurance that my credit card numbers and other identifying info like full name, birthday, phone number, and mailing address cannot be erased from the websites concerned when I see fit. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Nicely said Missy , and I agree 100%.