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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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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.

Medicare drug negotiations and $8 credit card late fee payments are my rebuttal. You aren’t supposed to fix it; you’re bringing it to the attention of leverage who can. Phone call is free besides your time.

Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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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.

Can anyone who understands legal stuff explain this? As a layman Roku’s popup seemed wildly insufficient verification that the account owners were the ones accepting these TOS.

Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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This is your regular reminder to audit your password manager for accounts you no longer need, and then go and have those accounts deleted.

Of course you can't guarantee that your data will actually be purged, or that it hasn't already been compromised from these places - but less exposure is better than more exposure, right?

Re: Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

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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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