Stealth startup Privacy Labs raises $4M to give consumers control of their data

Stealth startup Privacy Labs raises $4M to give consumers control of their data(techcrunch.com)

13 points by kn0thing 9 years ago | 7 comments

> a stealth-stage startup that wants to enable internet users to “regain control” of their personal data, has landed a $4 million seed funding round... Other investors that participated include Lemnos Labs, Liquid 2 Ventures, CrunchFund*,...

So Arrington is promoting one of his investments on one of his sites. The investment claims to "give consumers control of their data," but the site gives that data to at least 9 companies: AOL, Facebook, Gravatar, Parsely, Taboola, Tinypass, Twitter, Vidible, and Wordpress.

Mandatum 9 years ago |

There is no news here about the product or service that they're working on. We only have a name and HD Moore's involvement at an advisory level.

This is not interesting.

bedros 9 years ago |

4 mils seed fund with no product or traction? are they trying to repeat the path color App took?

http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/color-shuts-down/#9QwfKgsSEGq...

masonic 9 years ago | |

  4 mils seed fund with no product or traction?

... or Head of Marketing, or Head of Design (per their Openings)

the_common_man 9 years ago |

"The company doesn’t have a product right now and is cagey about what it will eventually release"

Incredible pitching!

jjoe 9 years ago |

How timely was this PR considering what happened with CF today[0]. I'm sincerely impressed!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752

tmrmn 9 years ago |

This reminds me of Arrested Developments Faceblock way too much