Changing terms after the fact does not change the terms that were being operated under during the time of the breach.
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#32For 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.
The whole point of having a quick, online opt-in and an elaborate "mail us a notarized letter" opt-out is to make it very easy to opt in. Why would they want to make it harder? They're already on dodgy legal ground, and the "enter your PIN" wouldn't make it much firmer.
You're thinking like an engineer given the problem of "get people's consent" instead of like a businessman with the goal of "altering the deal."
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#33One after the other, can we all assume now that a data breach for any company is not an "if" anymore, just a "when"?
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#34It sure would be nice to know what was exposed in the hack.
Given they are an advertisement company.
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#35This 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?
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#36For 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.
Someone else pointed out that they can’t even prove it wasnt a dog who agreed by chewing on the remote. Yet somehow these clicks are still considered to legally bind the owner.
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#37This breach is suspiciously close to their new forced arbitration in their terms of service.
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#38It sure would be nice to know what was exposed in the hack. Given they are an advertisement company.
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#39I'm sorry, after 20 years of data breach alarmism, and resulting de minimus consequences, isn't time for some of this to get a "who cares?"
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#40I'm sorry, after 20 years of data breach alarmism, and resulting de minimus consequences, isn't time for some of this to get a "who cares?"
I think theres actually a huge industry around buying and using the information stolen in these breaches? Identity theft is a pretty big problem no? This seems like a really weird take.