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posted by janrinok on Saturday August 11 2018, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-photos-are-still-your-photos dept.

A Paris court on Thursday ordered Twitter to change its smallprint, according to a consumer group which accused the tech giant of having "abusive" clauses in its terms and conditions.

UFC-Que Choisir claimed victory in its case against the US social media platform, saying "the conviction has a gigantic scope for the protection of users' personal data". The consumer association had called on the high court "to recognise the abusive or illegal nature" of 256 clauses contained in Twitter's terms and conditions that it said breached users' privacy.

In particular, UFC-Que Choisir said the court's decision guarantees Twitter users that their photos and tweets can no longer be "commercially exploited" if they have not given their consent. "By ticking a small box to accept the terms of service, the consumer has not expressly accepted their data can be exploited," the group said.


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 12 2018, @05:31PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 12 2018, @05:31PM (#720624) Journal

    When drafting a story you can always select 'Meta' instead of the 'Main Page', or you can email any member of the staff at our usual SN addresses.

    Alternatively, for registered members, you can post to your journal and then let us know that you would like us to view your posting. That way we can have a multi-way conversation about whatever it is that is causing you some concern.

    We all have busy lives and we don't spend as much time on IRC as we used to. The main reason that this is the case for the editorial team is that all of the current team members are experienced and there isn't quite the same need for constant discussion. We know how to action the majority of problems that we see. However, we do have both public and private channels on IRC that we can use when necessary.

    Nevertheless, as you seem to be having some problem with the ATK account and its usage, I can perhaps explain a little more about it here. Firstly, as I have already pointed out the account is available to all editors and it enables the easy submitting of stories to the submission queue. While this isn't entirely automatic - Arthur cannot tell a good story from a bad one - it is still very convenient. All Arthur does to a URL is extract all of the text from the page, and running Arthur means that it checks all the feeds that we monitor for new material. The text that Arthur produces still has to be edited by 2 editors to meet the full requirements of our site. Some of the alternative methods of submitting a story only provide us with a URL which means that the editor has considerably more work to do than would normally be the case for a well written submission. So it is also possible to use Arthur to automate the text extraction rather than have to cut and paste from a web page. Arthur also does a reasonable job of cleaning up embedded links, it removes javascript and tracking data, and it removes advertising and other unwanted material from the page being processed. It is a convenient tool but it does not change the fact that it only provides another submission which enters the submission queue and is subsequently treated like any other submission from any other source. I don't see that it is any better or worse than having stories submitted by 'SoyCows', or by 'MrPlow' or 'Exec' on IRC.

    The main advantage of Arthur's material is that, in common with submissions by the likes of Takyon and many others, it is on topic and meet the requirements for the type of stories that this sites is looking for. However, Arthur does not provide a well written and researched submission unlike the majority of submissions that we receive from our regular contributors.

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