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> That way they could opt out of selected provisions—limiting, for instance, third parties that can gain access to the data or restricting the kinds of informat
by gizmo385 9y ago
> That way they could opt out of selected provisions—limiting, for instance, third parties that can gain access to the data or restricting the kinds of information companies may stockpile.
Am I understanding this incorrectly or are you suggesting that we allow people to selectively opt-out of portions of a T&C document? Because good luck getting any legal department to buy into that whatsoever.
- komali2 9y agoMore like, it would look like this: 1. You agree to allow us to share your email address with 3rd parties (have useful targeted advertisements? y/n) 2. You agree to allow us to parse your messages internally (enable auto-reply suggestions in messages? y/n) Something like that. I mean I think there would still be "hard-coded" T&C, "standing order" type things you agree to just by using the app at all. Like, not uploading goreporn or something.
- PeterisP 9y agoOf course company legal departments won't do that on their own initiative, however, they will help arrange that in a sane manner if the legislature forces them to do so. The GDPR requirement is that companies will have to allow people to selectively opt-in to the portions of currently typical T&C documents which currently say that the user allows you to use their data for various purposes, or these portions will automatically be considered null and void. This is already now implemented in a bunch of places - e.g. I got a mobile internet contract recently which involved being asked a bunch of questions about what private data uses I'd be okay with or not, and that resulted in customized/removed/added paragraphs in the agreement that I signed; but the other companies have still about a month until GDPR requires everyone here to do so or stop using people's data.