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USA: Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages(therecord.media)

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SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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Fucking why? WHY IS IT OKAY TO SPY AND SNOOP?

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Plum@lemmy.world
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$$$$$$$$

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SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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Wouldn’t it be cool if legislatures made decisions based on the constitution and ethics and weren’t completely driven by corporate profits?

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Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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Because a billion people clicked “I Accept” over the past 20 years.

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SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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What they really clicked is “this is bullshit and I don’t have time to read all of this, just to use something I paid for”. If companies were required by law to distill their policies into plain English and short summaries then a lot fewer people would have clicked accept. But those ToS started out as nothing more than overly long liability waivers, and over the years the corporations started sneaking more and more exploitative language into them.

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