andrew writes:
"Alternet.org reports recent updates to terms of conditions for Bank of Americas cell phone app and Capital Ones new credit card contract have given banks unsettling new abilities. These privileges include the authority to access to your phone microphone and camera or even showing up at your workplace and home unannounced at any time.
From the the article:
We're witnessing a new era of fascism, where corporations are creating intrusive and over-bearing terms and conditions that customers click to agree to without even reading.
As a result, corporations in America have acquired king-like power, while we're the poor serfs that must abide by their every rule or else."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:15AM
A lot of history proves you wrong -- just how long was the French monarchy crushing its citizenry? Hundreds and hundreds of years. For most of that time, it totally paid for the rulers to be assholes. Same thing with Czars. It is only rarely that things go wrong for the ruling class, and then, we just get a new ruling is installed.