[LINK] Dodgy website T&Cs (was Re: RFC: Cloud Computing)

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:57:37AM +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> But surely if a significant act were to take place (such as Facebook
> deciding that they were going to use your photos in advertising), they
> would let you know beforehand. Even just as a common courtesy. How
> hard would that really be?

what's a "significant act"?

for me(*), it would be ANY use of the data i provided for ANY
purpose other than the purpose I originally provided it for.

for most businesses, any use would be ordinary and insignificant,
especially if they believe that the "existing business relationship"
exceptions in the anti-spam legislation allow them to get away
with spamming their customers (legally, it might....but it does
nothing for their reputation, and doesn't exactly endear them to
the customers they've just demonstrated their contempt for).


the trouble with reasonable "rules" or common-sense guidelines is that
they're wonderful sources of exploitable loopholes for unreasonable
scumbags.



(*) and, IMO, this is the only reasonable, sane, or justifiable
definition.  anything else is just excuse-mongering for spammers.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>