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Not much technical knowledge required. Basic parental control on my ASUS router denies access to the internet to Samsung TV and it can still play content from L

• brennen 10y ago
  In order to roughly scale how much technical knowledge this actually represents, remember that most humans, even most humans with home networks, do not know what routers and networks are.
  • pdkl95 10y ago
    For a much better sense of scale, it's important to remember that ~14% of adults in the US are illiterate[1]. This is why the medical community adopted the principle of requiring informed consent[2]. a much higher standard than "it was in the ToS" or "our business model assumes you weren't lucky enough to have the education necessary to understand why it is important to opt-out". Similar requirements need to be applied to data; if you aren't proactively informing users about precisely what will happen with their data, and making sure they understand, the user isn't making a properly informed decision. Pretending people will understand the consequences of data collection (with modern analysis methods) when there is a decent chance they can't even read the ToS/etc is what you tell yourself to alleviate conative dissonance. [1] https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp#2 https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp#2 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent