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The GDPR should take care of that to a large degree. Consent must be asked for in a clear understandable fashion. Burrying some legalese crap at page 29 of yo
by CaptainZapp 9y ago
The GDPR should take care of that to a large degree.
Consent must be asked for in a clear understandable fashion.
Burrying some legalese crap at page 29 of your 12'000 word TOS doesn't cut it.
Could be that Facebook tries to push the envelope yet again. They may come to regret it.
- moduspol 9y agoWe'll see. If I had to bet, it will not be the case that we'll see some big exile of users as a result of having to click through an additional "Agree and Continue" dialogue to get to what they were going to do anyway. The GDPR will do a lot more to appear to be doing things right than actually benefiting users.
- dralley 9y ago> implying that adding an additional "are you sure" to the process of joining a social media platform _doesn't_ benefit users. /snark
- moduspol 9y agoIt'll be about as beneficial as the "this site uses cookies" notices or the Vista UAC that everyone just clicked through anyway.
- rmc 9y agoIt depends. Courts could rule that click through licences don't constitute "informed consent", because let's be honest, people aren't informed about what they're signing.
- moduspol 9y agoRespectfully if users are honestly considered too dumb to read targeted dialog boxes, the regulation required to "fix" that "problem" is going to be downright draconian.
- regularhackerer 9y agoWhat about the data already collected? Do they need consent to keep it?
- CaptainZapp 9y agoI'm not the expert, but from what I know You have a right to learn what data they have about you, with whom they share it and a lot more details In addition you can opt out of anything you agreed on earlier and I would be surprised if you can't request deletion if the business has no business reason to store it. (Arguably, a difficult call with Facebook whom's entire raison d'être is to fuck with your privacy).