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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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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:22AM
I appear to have angered some people by my initial post which was, I confess, blunt.
How about another approach? The bank wants to have control over the mobile (cell) phone. OK, accept that - but only on the following conditions: They pay all or part of the cost of the telephone, they are equally responsible for any data that appears on the device (pornography etc), they pay a proportion of the cost of data transfers each month, and if you are arrested and the device confiscated by LE, then both you and the bank have to agree to the police inspecting the device. They cannot have control but no responsibility.
Alternatively, they could just provide you with a phone at the bank's expense and they can then control it as much as they wish.
Its YOUR phone, YOU pay for it, tell them to get on with running a bank and to leave you alone, while you will take care of those things that you are responsible for.
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