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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 65228" data-source="post: 714365">That too.Sure we can expect some privacy invasion... But THIS much? WHEN DO YOU CROSS THE LINE?!So this is OK?Company: &quot;Sorry before you can use our services on the account you&#039;ve had for 2 years, please accept her updated Terms of Service/Privacy Policy!&quot;Terms of Service/Privacy Policy: **around 10k+ words long**User: **accepts because it is so long and due to how it is written, they won&#039;t understand it properly even if they tried to*Now the company can:- Track you on many different websites which has their own technology built-in (e.g. if they own the blog platform or the website owner used a plug-in from them, etc.)- Store your personal account information on their servers for eternity- Store any messages or other data related to the account across all other services on their servers for eternity- Sell the data to make income, even if it isn&#039;t &quot;anonymous&quot;....It would be more fair if it was a bit more like this.Company: &quot;Sorry before you can use our services on the account you&#039;ve had for 2 years, please accept her updated Terms of Service/Privacy Policy!&quot;Terms of Service/Privacy Policy: **around 10k+ words long**Terms of Service/Privacy Policy: BULLET POINT, SIMPLE TO READ VERSION SO THE USER CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT DATA WILL BE TAKEN AND STORED AND FOR HOW LONG FORThat would at-least be a bit more fair on many people.Has no one ever seen the Avast Anti-Virus/Internet Security installation UI? They dedicated a whole tab to ensure the user understands the data collection in their products, and also outlined that this data is sold. This allows the novice to know about it at ease without having to fish through some huge contract document, which virtually probably less than 10% of the population will actually read before accepting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deleted member 65228, post: 714365"] That too. Sure we can expect some privacy invasion... But THIS much? WHEN DO YOU CROSS THE LINE?! So this is OK? [B]Company:[/B] "Sorry before you can use our services on the account you've had for 2 years, please accept her updated Terms of Service/Privacy Policy!" [B]Terms of Service/Privacy Policy:[/B] **around 10k+ words long** User: **accepts because it is so long and due to how it is written, they won't understand it properly even if they tried to* Now the company can: - Track you on many different websites which has their own technology built-in (e.g. if they own the blog platform or the website owner used a plug-in from them, etc.) - Store your personal account information on their servers for eternity - Store any messages or other data related to the account across all other services on their servers for eternity - Sell the data to make income, even if it isn't "anonymous" .... It would be more fair if it was a bit more like this. [B]Company:[/B] "Sorry before you can use our services on the account you've had for 2 years, please accept her updated Terms of Service/Privacy Policy!" [B]Terms of Service/Privacy Policy:[/B] **around 10k+ words long** [B]Terms of Service/Privacy Policy:[/B] BULLET POINT, SIMPLE TO READ VERSION SO THE USER CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT DATA WILL BE TAKEN AND STORED AND FOR HOW LONG FOR That would at-least be a bit more fair on many people. Has no one ever seen the Avast Anti-Virus/Internet Security installation UI? They dedicated a whole tab to ensure the user understands the data collection in their products, and also outlined that this data is sold. This allows the novice to know about it at ease without having to fish through some huge contract document, which virtually probably less than 10% of the population will actually read before accepting. [/QUOTE]

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