UPDATE 17th MARCH 2021: Your pressure is working! The French privacy watchdog launched an investigation into Clubhouse thanks to SumOfUs members in France. Now let's demand the UK Information Commissioner does the same!
Clubhouse is already scrambling to get its house in order -- on Friday 12th March it reportedly updated its app so that users are no longer required to share their entire address book if they want to invite their friends. But this is just one of the ways that Clubhouse is potentially violating our privacy so it's vital that we don't let up.
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Heard of the hot new social media app Clubhouse? Even if you haven't: they might have your name and number!
The app's appalling privacy terms mean that when new members invite a friend to join, the names and numbers of all their contacts are uploaded to a secret database -- and possibly shared with third parties.
Clubhouse is growing in popularity, with celebrity backers like Elon Musk. But what it's doing with our data is illegal -- and we need to hold these arrogant Clubhouse execs to account.
Demand the UK’s privacy watchdog force Clubhouse to stop breaking the law.
For years, lawmakers shied away from clamping down on Facebook for doing the exact same things -- and now it’s destroying our democracy.
Clubhouse is hoping that we’ve learned nothing and its dodgy practices will go unnoticed. But Germany’s Hamburg privacy watchdog has already called the company out for potentially breaking European law. Now we need regulators in other countries to follow suit and pile the pressure on Clubhouse.
If thousands of us demand that the UK regulator enforces the law, we can stop this blatant violation of our privacy laws -- and send a powerful message to other tech companies that our data belongs to us, not them.
Sign the petition: bust up this secret Clubhouse!
More information
Clubhouse: The Hot New Social Network Has Big Privacy Problems
Forbes. 10 February 2021.
Forbes. 10 February 2021.
Clubhouse's security and privacy lag behind its explosive growth
Wired. 26 February 2021.
Wired. 26 February 2021.