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[ NNSquad ] Taco Bell Goes Mobile Stupid (and Maybe Illegal?)
Taco Bell Goes Mobile Stupid (and maybe Illegal?) Taco Bell -- whom I routinely avoid patronizing to avoid unwanted side-effects after eating -- appears for the moment at least to be demonstrating stupidity on the Web as well as upset in the gut. If you visit www.tacobell.com currently, you'll be greeted with nothing but a page telling you they're no longer "on the Internet" [idiots!] -- but now only accessible via iOS and Android apps. The page appears to have no other obvious links except to those app stores. Apparently no corporate contact info. No place to look up nutrition data or file complaints. No privacy policy. If any of those are hidden somewhere, they're not obvious. Is this for real? A short term publicity stunt? A demented clown taking over Taco Bell IT? And while I won't speculate on the details here, it also seems possible that Taco Bell is in violation of law in some interesting ways by doing this as well -- gotta research that a bit more. But even if it's all legal, it's also something else. It's one of the most stupid, lamebrain, anti-consumer stunts I've ever seen pulled by any food chain. You couldn't pay me to eat there. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them. Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad