[LINK] US-AMA far too complacent about human RFID tags

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 12:14 +1000, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
> Is this not informed consent?

It depends. If the participants' attention is drawn clearly,
unambiguously and with appropriate emphasis, to the conditions of entry,
then yes. If the conditions of entry are written in tiny type somewhere
out of the way and no particular attention is drawn to them, then they
had better be very, very innocuous conditions.

If you entered such a competition and found you had committed yourself
to, for example, paying the cost of all your own transport to mandatory
media events if you won, how would you feel if the conditions of entry
had been in one-point type in the lower left hand corner on page three?

It is only because privacy issues are currently massively undervalued
and massively misunderstood by the general public that conditions such
as those from Shell or Microsoft are tolerated any more than you would
tolerate such a condition as I suggested.

> Who's fault is it that "users" can not be bothered to read it... or 
> maybe they have and are aware?

Good point - ask a few.

Regards, K

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