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Permissions creep is rampant in the industry, apps all start with a pretty user friendly set of permissions and over time the ToS/ToUs and permissions get incre
by mguerville 5y ago
Permissions creep is rampant in the industry, apps all start with a pretty user friendly set of permissions and over time the ToS/ToUs and permissions get increasingly offensive. The other similar pattern to this is decreasing "SLAs" like how Uber and Lyft are now often misrepresenting the wait time to get a ride (driver is 3 minutes out = at least 7 minutes), and if they had started that way they'd never have gained such widepread adoption in the first place.
- babyshake 5y agoThe worst part is how within the companies, these changes are always pitched as somehow being user-friendly with a contortion of logic.
- troyvit 5y agoThat's the terrible thing about a "reasonable expectation of privacy."[0] Permission creep keeps pushing back what "reasonable" means. From the findlaw article: "This means that the disclosure or discovery of a private matter must have happened when the plaintiff was in a place or situation in which the average person would be offended at being intruded upon." So now we shouldn't be offended if apps use our location data even when we're not using those apps. [0] https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/what-is-the--reasonable-expectation-of-privacy--.html https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w...
- radicaldreamer 5y agoThey did start that way... they've been doing this for years.