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posted by martyb on Monday February 25 2019, @04:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-do-you-read,-my-lord?-Words,-words,-words. dept.

We should each take privacy seriously, even online, and there is a distinction between privacy and security. The latter is a choice, the former is a right. Despite that it is not feasible for most people to read the terms and conditions for the online services which they use, especially when these terms of service weigh in with multiple tens of thousands of words per document.

Private text messages aside, who really cares about data privacy, right? If your photos, contacts, calendar, email, browsing history, search history, musical tastes, files, thousands of status updates, likes, shares and physical movements are all in the cloud, who really cares?

Please read that last paragraph again and let it sink in – that is probably more data than your nearest and dearest have about you. Yet generally speaking, people don’t seem to be concerned that such volumes of data are out there and being used without our consent.

PayPal’s terms and conditions are longer than Hamlet! The vast majority of people will not have the time, or inclination, to read and decipher thousands of words in legalese to work out where their data is going. Ipso facto, this data is being shared without our consent, regardless of whether we have accepted the terms and conditions or not.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday February 25 2019, @05:32PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday February 25 2019, @05:32PM (#806423) Journal

    Money, money, money. That's what it's all about. You are the mark. Customer service is a thing of the past. We've been headed down this road for a long time.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @06:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @06:21PM (#806473)

    We've been headed down this road for a long time.

    Yeah, well, we're the mules pulling the coal train, so what's the point of complaining?

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by sjames on Monday February 25 2019, @10:55PM

    by sjames (2882) on Monday February 25 2019, @10:55PM (#806636) Journal

    Customer service is alive and well. The company expects the customer to be at their service 24/7.