This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The US can do whatever they want in their country but leave the rest of us alone. We're actually doing much better without you. It would be even better if you stopped interfering ie start an illegal war, in the name of Israel. Than we can all move on without the US.
An MIT Technology Review investigation reveals World’s unethical practices when onboarding test users across Africa and Asia, including deceptive marketing practices. The investigation also says that World was gathering personal data beyond iris scans, including heartbeat, breathing, and other vital signs, and doing so without obtaining meaningful informed consent.
Insane. When businesses are building massive systems to identify and track the citizenry, the government should step in and stomp it out. Instead, the government is mandating that it proceeds.
The system is functioning as expected. The system must be destroyed.
Wake up and smell the dystopia. It's cooking, and if you don't like how it smells, just wait until you have to eat it.
From the country so adament against a nationwide ID, this is rich
Yeah, I'm not doing that. Go fuck yourselves.
The problem is companies like docusign you might not have a choice not to use it, for a job for instance. This is pernicious, and will force us to hand over even more of our information, accepting a thousand page terms of service to do necessary tasks, with no government protection (none enforced even when there,) to any significant degree.
In sane places, large terms of service are unenforceable due to the lack of reasonable expectation that they were read and understood. The USA is just a dystopic cesspool of anti-consumerism.
Most of such terms were unenforceable in the US too, until around 2001 or so, and it just got worse from there. The supreme court made it official in the 10's sometime if I recall, endorsing even making consumers or employees sign away their rights to sue to either buy something or get hired.
All that wage theft from minimum wage workers, which exploded in the bush years, happened with employees unable to sue, instead only being able to bring a binding arbitration suit of the employer's choosing. And knowing them they would make the claimant pay a big filing fee to start the process.
It also used to be that if one part of such a contract was found to be illegal, the entire thing would be thrown out, not any more.
That last part isn't necessarily bad. There could be an honest mistake in a contract both parties are otherwise fine with. As for the rest... I'm so glad I emigrated.
The last part is always bad, even if theoretically it may not be. When you have a hundred to a thousand terms and conditions being pushed on you for a near immediate signature, that's because they can add that one part being illegal doesn't make the rest unenforceable, and now instead of a single page of terms we have a hundred.
There is a reason the Courts made that rule of disqualifying the entire contract of such contracts if one part was illegal, and they have rules and tests for when that applies too in such cases to prevent any legitimate mistakes from cancelling an entire contract.
US: Are we the bad guys?
Morgan Freeman: It was at that moment that the people realized they were.
Fuck off, Sam
Again, we don’t have to use any of this. There are alternatives to all of those products.
Hold up? I'm going to need to verify to use zoom, now? Wtf for?
/ sarcasm on All companies who respect your privacy / sarcasm off
Uhm, no.
This is one of those technologies that CEOs hear about and think would be great for their business. But, they don’t consider that nobody wants to fucking do this.
they don't care... big difference.
