We also shouldn’t be conditioned to just accept terms of services with no recourse, by this point I think most people just press accept and know by now whatever it is there, isn’t worth the trouble of fighting to have it changed, so companies can legally have a free for all with your privacy, cause you consented to things you’ll later find out you didn’t even know you consented for.
Comment on ‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t think that the issue is that people don’t know; people don’t care. They don’t understand how horrible the loss of privacy is, and think that the marginal convenience of being able to control your thermostat from your workplace, or have your refrigerator add milk to your shopping list outweighs the negatives of them being turned into botnets, or monetizing all of your data to squeeze every last penny out of you.
Jessvj93@lemmy.world 1 year ago
snooggums@kbin.social 1 year ago
No re4ason to care when the TOS can be changed at any time, and who wants to read it once much less every times they want to use a thing?
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ToS are the worst thing ever. They are “contracts” that you are required to sign to do literally anything in the world but are not allowed to negotiate and can be modified at any time without your consent and your original signing is propagated to the new contract and it is still considered binding. Also, they are allowed to put clauses in which hand over rights to your property, intellectual or otherwise, which is irrevocable and perpetual. Additionally, you have many “software” providers putting clauses in which state that you only lease the license, you do not own it. Even if you have a physical media with the software, you only purchased a lease and it is therefore illegal for you to resell it. They are also allowed to revoke your lease at anytime, without recompense of any sort. That is the real power of SaaS, not the subscription, but the fact that nobody is ever allowed to own something, no matter how much money you have paid.
Yes, as others have said, they are virtually unenforceable, but it does happen often enough to make sure you are afraid of it.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The TOS are the legal equivalent of a locked car door. It’s the bare minimum prevention against a lawsuit, but really doesn’t protect anything. It’s because they are so long and opaque that they are often unenforceable.
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You say you don’t think the issue is that people don’t know then immediately begin with “they don’t understand…”
What’s the difference?
boatswain@infosec.pub 1 year ago
The difference is the part immediately after you stopped quoting:
They don’t understand how horrible the loss of privacy is…
What OP is saying here is that people know abstractly that smart devices are not privacy friendly, but they don’t understand how big a deal that actually can be.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So what you guys are saying is that people don’t know how much their privacy is being invaded.
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Not understanding is the same as not knowing. I know that a car pollutes the environment but I don’t understand just how much. I don’t know the info.
mreiner@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I also feel many don’t understand the full extent, either. They’re used to using fairly secure devices in their everyday life (often not realizing how much the software they install is also spying on them), so why wouldn’t these IoT things also be secure?
In my experience, it’s all very vague and ethereal until the risks are highlighted for them. “So what if Google can read all of my emails? What could they possibly do with that information, anyway; why should I care?” is an example of a portion of a real conversation I’ve had.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s really maddening is realizing that secure spying is still spying.
LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I agree. There are far too many people with the “if I’m not doing anything wrong, then what have I to hide?” mindset. I’ve seen people unironically say that all Tor users must be engaging in illegal activity, and I don’t think it occurs to them that in many parts of the world, freely accessing information is an illegal activity, and by adopting this mindset we’re empowering that type of state.
Nyanix@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I like the way a coworker put it to me, it’s the same reason we have locks on our doors and curtains on our windows, it’s not because we have something to hide, but a right to privacy that tech giants have widely ignored.