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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 10:03 AM Aug 2013

Terms and Conditions May Apply



This is an important and frightening film, about how Google, Amzaon, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkdin - and IMDb? - harvest our personal information and onsell it to the highest bidder, or to the government. How we don't read that wodge of text in capitals comprising "Terms and conditions" before we click "Accept" - nobody could, it would take a month per year for everything we sign. But even when that text is brief and written in plain English, it gives those corporations unprecedented power over our personal information - including the right to change the rules without telling us, to increase their power without limit and without asking again, and to keep it forever, even after we have "deleted" it.
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Terms and Conditions May Apply (Original Post) SecularMotion Aug 2013 OP
I like the ones that say you agree to installing 3rd party software. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 #1
K&R Neoma Aug 2013 #2
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