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Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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Post by ryandrake »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6
brevitea wrote: post #5

Sure wish CISA and SEC would effectively monitor and fine companies that suffer data breaches. After all, we're not being paid for that data, yet we remain the victim of their actions.

Reporting requirements exist [1], civil and criminal penalties will require Congressional action. Definitely gross that companies are using forced arbitration to avoid liability for their breaches (first 23andme, now Roku). Call your congressperson. Also, if you are impacted/have standing, consider an FTC complaint [2] and contacting your state’s attorney general. [1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-139 […

> Call your congressperson.

I'm sure that after my phone call, my congressperson will drop all the things he is being paid thousands of lobbying dollars to do on behalf of his donors to get right on this. Sorry for the snark, but normal people are powerless to do anything about these shenanigans.

Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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Post by smallmancontrov »

enragedcacti wrote: post #8

For those who don't know, just a week or so ago Roku amended the arbitration clause of their terms of service and soft-bricked every Roku in the US until you Agreed to the new terms. This even extended to TVs from other brands with Roku software, making the TV non-functional even as a dumb display since the Roku software controls input selection AND would ignore any HDMI-CEC commands. I guess we know why now. There i…

My Roku-enabled TV used to bootloop whenever I blocked it from fetching screensaver ads. Support was happy to help. First step: (re)connect to the internet. Second step: disable any network ad blocking. Hmmmmm.

People rolled their eyes when I suggested that this was intentional, but these recent revelations strongly suggest that Roku is very comfortable exploiting the hell out of dark patterns.

If we don't enact stronger consumer protections, everything will work this way.

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Post by bee_rider »

CedarMadness wrote: post #9

This breach is suspiciously close to their new forced arbitration in their terms of service.

I wonder if the obviously coordinated nature of this change will come back to bite them in the ass. It seems hard to believe that it was a good-faith change on their part.

Also, the breach happened while people were receiving services under the old TOS, not the new one. I wonder if that could impact things?

Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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Post by jayknight »

enragedcacti wrote: post #8

For those who don't know, just a week or so ago Roku amended the arbitration clause of their terms of service and soft-bricked every Roku in the US until you Agreed to the new terms. This even extended to TVs from other brands with Roku software, making the TV non-functional even as a dumb display since the Roku software controls input selection AND would ignore any HDMI-CEC commands. I guess we know why now. There i…

My kids have been watching TV, they must have accepted it on my behalf. They should have required the parental control pin to accept it.

Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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Post by xyst »

enragedcacti wrote: post #8

For those who don't know, just a week or so ago Roku amended the arbitration clause of their terms of service and soft-bricked every Roku in the US until you Agreed to the new terms. This even extended to TVs from other brands with Roku software, making the TV non-functional even as a dumb display since the Roku software controls input selection AND would ignore any HDMI-CEC commands. I guess we know why now. There i…

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