[LINK] Fwd: RE: Privacy-hostile account requirement for iView - why?

[Stephen Loosley]

Karl writes

> Barring a tangential mention of vague "opt-out functionalities", this response
> fails to address any point I made ..   Regards, K.

Made well, if one may say ... maybe to mid-level public servants not clear on ‘private citizen’ concepts.
Regards, S

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From: Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
Sent: Sunday, 30 May 2021 7:30 PM
To: ABC Privacy <privacy.abc at abc.net.au>
Subject: Privacy-hostile account requirement for iView - why?



Hullo My ABC



I do not understand why you are introducing a privacy-hostile policy
requiring all ABC iView users to have accounts.



For people who want the benefits of an account, such as customised
programming or whatever, accounts are a great idea. But that can be
achieved entirely and effectively through opt-in. There is no technical
need to impose an account requirement on everybody.



Forcing everyone to have an account, whether they want one or not,
rather suggests that there are benefits to YOU, about which you have
not informed us. Which leads to the uncomfortable suspicion that the
benefits to you are not things we, your viewers, would want you to
have, if we knew about them.



Please: Make the account system opt-in. Or make public ALL the reasons
why you will not or cannot do so.



Right now, you seem to be working hard on destroying your status as one
of the most trusted institutions in our country.



Thank you

Karl Auer.


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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au<mailto:kauer at biplane.com.au>)