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‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram
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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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Very true, and hopefully many other verdicts will follow, like "It’s not real consent if....this or that.
This dark pattern has started to spread everywhere already.
It's not consent if there are fifty pages of legalese to read before you press accept.
I’m a big fan of TOSDR and recommend everyone check it out. It’s a site dedicated to translating TOS and EULA into English by attorneys working pro-bono. It’s amazing what you’ll find in some of those agreements.
I did not know this existed, thank you!
You waive your moral rights ...
Wow, I didn't even know it was possible to waive our moral rights, some heavy shit right there.
And I had to lol when I saw it was coming from Blizzard of all places.
Edit: It's actually a different kind of morals, not in the general public sense (Right vs Wrong) definition that we all know.
Still seems immoral though, controlling someone else's work, as if it is your own, so thoroughly.
I'm guessing that's not enforceable per much anywhere, hence the "unless prohibited by law" part. But they stick it in there so they can scare you into giving up a legal fight. Most terms of service are throwing crap at the wall and seeing what sticks.
My understanding is it actually is enforceable, as other companies also use that clause. Having said that, IANAL.
/agree
Just because everyone does it doesn't make it legal, it just means there aren't penalties for putting it in. That's why everyone goes 5-10mph over the speed limit, lack of enforcement doesn't make something legal.
The escorts in the comments wildin’ out. Sheesh.
In context it means all user content submitted in the games is effectively fully owned by Blizzard, a copyright assignment clause (this differs from the typical "we get a perpetual license to what you submit to us")
I understand what you mean now by them saying you wave your moral rights as a matter of giving up your rights to any product you create.
Still seems immoral of them to just grab your creations and claim it as their own, but "viva capitalism!" I guess.
Also, you really should make a separate post about this, to bring awareness more widely.
Go for it. I’m still pretty new to Lemmy. I don’t want it getting ignored because people think I’m a bot because of my new account. Lol
I'm not sure if many will even notice that, especially if you make a post that consists of more than a link.
Thanks for mentioning TOSDR, I'm going to have an interesting read, I guess
Second this. I stumbled across this thread, and the arguments are solid, could absolutely bring greater benefit to the community as its own post in my opinion.
I can hear PayPal giggling
There's a core tenet in EU consumer protection law that if clauses aren't clear enough to understand by laymen, they can be challenged.
Curious how they expect this to work for people who aren't even "paying" [with money or data] Meta users. Those people who never signed up for any of their services yet are still being tracked across websites via those social sharing buttons and the like. Are they supposed to pay Meta to not hoard their data from all the other websites, despite never setting foot on a Meta site?
It is plain illegal what META is doing there. They just haven't been dragged to court so far.
But with these buttons, the websites which includes them are offenders, too.
They are, but 95% of them have no clue what Facebook is using their site to do. They just handwave it away as "add this button and users can like your posts" without any actual effort to inform the site owner how invasive they are.
see I'd generally pay for privacy stuff
but I would need to pay. and theres no private way to do that.
"Nice data you got there. Be a shame if someone sold that for a premium"
I wish they'd do that in the US for the stupid TOS nonsense they pull. I'm guessing a lot of it wouldn't hold up in court, but it's unlikely to get challenged because an individual just doesn't have the resources to do so, so it chills people into going along with it.
For example:
A lot of this is hidden behind dozens of pages of TOS that pretty much nobody reads. A general, "massive TOS isn't real consent" law could do wonders to improve consumer protections. Specifically, this is what I'd like to see:
Or something along those lines. Consumer protections suck here, and I think this could solve a lot of the problems. Airing dirty laundry can solve a lot of problems.
Some good ideas here. Probably go with a word limit in your last bullet instead of the 5 minutes
Yeah, that's probably legally reasonable. I'm sure a real lawyer could propose better restrictions as well.