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on Monday February 24 2014, @09:00PM
from the don't-click-ok-to-accept-the-eula dept.
from the don't-click-ok-to-accept-the-eula dept.
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."
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 1) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:52AM
-ornia, but they are perfectly legal.
That is, if your new employer requires a noncompete as a condition of your employment, they are actually free to do so.
It is completely up to you to figure out that that particular clause of the contract you just signed, is unenforceable.
If you should later go work for a competitor, your former employer won't sue you. They'll just drop a friendly dime to your new boss to point out your noncompete.
If your new boss does not already know about your noncompete, you've lost your job, you may never find out the real reason. "I'm sorry jim, but you are ten nanoseconds late to this morning's standup. Here's ten grand in hush money."
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