Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an average phone. In a talk about the alarming ways tech companies deceive their users, Myrstad shares insights about the personal information you've agreed to let companies collect — and how they use your data at a scale you could never imagine.
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GOOD JOB
You deserve a pat on the back
*I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.*
Welp. This looks like the end of Zuckerburg…
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If you were to be 19 what would you do to change your future?
Have anyone actually ever reads the terms and conditions anywhere?
Have you read T&C from your credit card provider, from you mortgage provider, from your bank?
They all use your data.
Forget about your privacy, silly people!
As soon as you connect to the internet it is gone.
Stop blaming tech companies.
Where would you be without them now, silly people? Back to farming and fighting goblins?
Duh!
I think I’d be alright without search suggestions or targeted ads idiot
Sergey Pershin Yes I read terms.
+VT What? There would be no search at all. Go to library. Even the library is the product of technology. 🙂
Or if you want all ads to disappear you can start paying – lots of “free” services these days can stopt ads if you pay them. 🙂
+Antony Smyth Good on you, man! Did it help?
+johannes alke I’m not even arguing, just issuing an extremely brief “wake up call” and slightly “venting out” 🙂
And this is why we need better privacy laws. It’s far too easy for large companies to abuse your private data.
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Yikes.
Convenience makes everybody weak and vulnerable to identity theft there are too many sheep in our society
Yeah but even if they are not spying on you directly they can still purchase your info from…..
“THE DARK WEB” AKA GOOGLE
lol
Don’t use Google.
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Google/YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and others are just Marxist piles of crap!!
We MUST Create a Police force to Police these God damn corporation before they release all this poisons on us.
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There needs to be some organization that simplifies the terms so it’s quick to read and understand. Companies won’t care unless many of us know what’s going on and chooses what to use based on it.