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>No one really cares about privacy now I spoke with several non-tech people about the facebook fiasco. The issue is that even a brilliant neurosurgeon does no

>No one really cares about privacy now I spoke with several non-tech people about the facebook fiasco. The issue is that even a brilliant neurosurgeon does not understand the TOS he has signed with Facebook and what they entail. Surely, there is some naïveté from people that don't expect facebook to do much with their data, but tech has also failed to teach users about this. Even self proclaimed privacy champions routinely make you sign dozen of pages of ToS that are updated on a whim.

rmc 9y ago
This is why a contract should not be legally binding if it's unclear. I don't mean "clear to a lawyer", but what the common person, spending the standard, common amount of time, with the advice you expect them to have[1], would think of as "clear". EU Data Protection law (like the GDPR) helps here, requiring informed consent. If you don't understand something, then you're not informed, and it shouldn't be binding. [1] When (say) signing a form for surgery, the surgon can presume that the person has been advised by a doctor. When buying a house, you can presume a lawyer was involved, etc. When signing a ToS for Facebook, we all know there was no legal advice recieved.