We desperately need laws to regulate these kinds of privacy policies/user agreements. The VAST majority are way too long and complicated for a normal person to actually understand, let alone read. We need to limit what companies can/can’t do with them instead of letting them do whatever they want to.
We also need a law that prevents them from changing the terms of service on a product someone has been using, then locking them out of it if they don’t agree to the new terms.
We also need a law that prevents them from changing the terms of service on a product someone has been using, then locking them out of it if they don’t agree to the new terms.
This. So, so much.
With mandatory jail time for the managers of companies who break this law, and/or fines that are guaranteed to send the stockholders howling and demanding the executives’s heads on spikes. The current fines clearly aren’t enough of a deterrent and just considered the normal cost of doing business.
If this is what they say we agree by tapping that license button, how about they put this on their TV ads?
We desperately need laws to regulate these kinds of privacy policies/user agreements. The VAST majority are way too long and complicated for a normal person to actually understand, let alone read. We need to limit what companies can/can’t do with them instead of letting them do whatever they want to.
We also need a law that prevents them from changing the terms of service on a product someone has been using, then locking them out of it if they don’t agree to the new terms.
This. So, so much.
With mandatory jail time for the managers of companies who break this law, and/or fines that are guaranteed to send the stockholders howling and demanding the executives’s heads on spikes. The current fines clearly aren’t enough of a deterrent and just considered the normal cost of doing business.