{"id":15684,"date":"2019-03-07T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:20:09","slug":"free-for-personal-information-or-freepi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2019\/03\/07\/free-for-personal-information-or-freepi\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-for-Personal-Information, or Freepi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We call the common business model where you give users something for free, and more for money <em>Freemium<\/em>. It&#8217;s a nice simple <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portmanteau\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">portmanteau<\/a> of <em>free<\/em> and <em>premium<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another business model I think we badly need a word for \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the one where users get to use something at no financial cost, but are made to pay, knowingly or un-knowingly, with their personal information instead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to propose the word <em>Freepi<\/em>, pronounced like <em>creepy<\/em> to describe this Free-for-Personal-Information business model. It&#8217;s a combination of the word <em>free<\/em> and the initials <em>pi<\/em> for <em>personal information<\/em>. The fact that many companies who employ this business model do really creepy things just makes the word that much more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you value your privacy, beware companies with <em>freepi<\/em> business models, they&#8217;re very likely to do creepy things!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Related Posts:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2019\/03\/08\/so-facebook-isnt-freepi-anymore\/\">So Facebook isn&#8217;t Freepi Anymore?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(3\/8\/2019)<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2019\/03\/06\/free-freemium-free-for-now-freepi\/\">Free, Freemium, Free-for-now &#038; Freepi<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(3\/6\/2019)<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We call the common business model where you give users something for free, and more for money Freemium. It&#8217;s a nice simple portmanteau of free and premium. There&#8217;s another business model I think we badly need a word for \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the one where users get to use something at no financial cost, but are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-44Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15692,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions\/15692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}