Haha, google doesn't provide good customer service for able bodied, so they provide the equal service for disabled.
Big tech needs a reckoning from consumer protection. Oh wait, those laws and the government agency were gutted. Nevermind.
Being a relatively new parent, the lack of consumer protection regulation in things like kids apps, youtube ads, and similar is APPALLING. I recall from my youth TV programming was highly regulated, arguably a bit too much, but at least the advertising industry had to stay within bounds.
App and youtube ads are the wild west, especially freemium games using any and all addictive mechanisms to extract money from kids and their parents.
Aside from that, big tech can't have it both ways. They can't be major providers of "cyberspace" services and provide no means for customer service or protection from their security automated services locking out someone. Why this isn't subject to large civil penalties, massive class action lawsuits, and even criminal violation of federal law is beyond me.
Terms of Service can't cover all of those, but then again, I haven't read them so...
Online services are steadily gaining importance equal to things like banking. Can you imagine a bank locking you out of your accounts and providing no means to get YOUR MONEY? Well, replace money with information. Why can't you get access to YOUR INFORMATION?
I understand the ToS providing the rights to analyze and use YOUR INFORMATION as part of the service, but we need federal legislation equal to the EU laws that I think do a better (but from what I can tell incomplete) job of delimiting the rights you have to YOUR INFORMATION.
Actually one simple act would bring US tech to its knees. Just changing terms of incorporation retroactively so that a percentage of individual share holders must vote in board elections not by proxy.
What we are seeing is a symptom of the system of corporation government that is unbalanced by design wrought in hell.
Haha, google doesn't provide good customer service for able bodied, so they provide the equal service for disabled.
Big tech needs a reckoning from consumer protection. Oh wait, those laws and the government agency were gutted. Nevermind.
Being a relatively new parent, the lack of consumer protection regulation in things like kids apps, youtube ads, and similar is APPALLING. I recall from my youth TV programming was highly regulated, arguably a bit too much, but at least the advertising industry had to stay within bounds.
App and youtube ads are the wild west, especially freemium games using any and all addictive mechanisms to extract money from kids and their parents.
Aside from that, big tech can't have it both ways. They can't be major providers of "cyberspace" services and provide no means for customer service or protection from their security automated services locking out someone. Why this isn't subject to large civil penalties, massive class action lawsuits, and even criminal violation of federal law is beyond me.
Terms of Service can't cover all of those, but then again, I haven't read them so...
Online services are steadily gaining importance equal to things like banking. Can you imagine a bank locking you out of your accounts and providing no means to get YOUR MONEY? Well, replace money with information. Why can't you get access to YOUR INFORMATION?
I understand the ToS providing the rights to analyze and use YOUR INFORMATION as part of the service, but we need federal legislation equal to the EU laws that I think do a better (but from what I can tell incomplete) job of delimiting the rights you have to YOUR INFORMATION.