We see this time and time again. Companies like Google, Netflix and many more have done things with our data with no reprocussion.
Even when states like Texas sue the company, there could be a settlement, and then the company promised to change but still do the same thing.
In a recent find on Kim Komando’s web site, we learn that Texas is suing Netflix for 10,000 dollars a piece for the wrongful sale of people’s data including children.
What’d I love to see on top of this, is a Coppa lawsuit for each child.
Instead of them saying they would change their practices, they should either be held to that word and followed up, or be forced to close for wrongful practices.
It’s bad enough that our data as adults gets sold, but according to this piece by Kim, you’re now involving kids who are just using it like anyone else and have no idea what’s happening behind the scene.
Maybe what the public needs to do is cancel their membership. All the way cancel it. I know I pay for it, although I hardly watch things these days, but I’m really considering deleting my membership. I’ll have to resubscribe at one point to keep my account active, but this is very tempting. If there aren’t any subscribers to help pay whatever the cost will be, and there’s no accountability except “sorry, this won’t happen again” then we’ve got problems.
Texas says Netflix was spying on your kids. And selling it. is the article coming from Kim.
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Shaun you’re not wrong, but suing someone and them paying to shut everyone on guard isn’t solving anything. I’m not saying that they should be forced out of business, but it has to hit them hard to where they decide it isn’t worth doing whatever it may be. This blog is full of these types of stories. I guess we’ll see, the thought is out there. I’ve got an opinion, you’ve got one and I think its sound. You do have some great points to this argument, let’s see what others think.
Jared I don’t think this is going to happen.
It would be nice but really look at piracy and the antipiracy measures.
Back in the day before opensource if I needed a bit of software and couldn’t afford it I hacked it.
My idea was that if I did use whatever software for more than 6 months I’d buy it.
I did eventually buy all but the most expensive and then opensource appeared which meant the only things I have that are not legal are those from places that went out of business and to be honest if I lost those it wouldn’t even be a massive issue.
The company fight has been going since the net came into being.
Its not right but can you imagine what would happen if that existed.
Companies would find ways out of it, maybe they would buy insurance against this.
Can you imagine the bill it would push users into.
With netflicks well I don’t know but even the local government channels are going behind a pay wall for various things.
Companies would find a way out of the laws set on them.
Its been a big issue for ages.
Worse for most of us it would be the people that buy that were effected.
I haven’t seen a breach in other places and this is the first I heard on this.
Unfortunately after the winestine leaks and trial there has been to much of a me to movement going on.
Now don’t get me wrong the original movement was justified similar to the black lives matter movement to some respects.
However the bandwaggon and things added to this isn’t and while its good to protest if it goes to far then its diluted a bunch.
For example the me to movers or what its become isn’t really helpfull.
Its like when I hear the local race protests here its just, well put on a more negative point of view which doesn’t help.
So 1 guy says things should happen.
It hardly matters.
And if I am in company x I’ll just say well I’ll take my business elsewhere.
I don’t know if it happened but in australia when extra underaged security happened there were rumors that companies may just shift out same with paying for advertising of things they shouldn’t have had in the first place as in reguard to news articles.
It would be nice if black was black and white was white but would it really help in the long term.
I am blind, I should by right have a great many things but not everything exists and if I was really on that line the government would have me working with a bunch of other disabled people doing something I don’t like.
I’d have a bunch of other things to.
Its because the system is broken that I get to do what I do and while I am lucky I have the funds and family and am aware of some others that have a harder life neither would I like to be forced into something.
If companies felt they were forced to do certain things then they would take their business elsewhere.
And there are always those that want to screw the system no matter what.
With everything going net wize its going to be harder and harder to police and control everything in physical law unless its changed.
But how do you set laws on a world that is always awake.
Also, as it stands privacy doesn’t matter online unless you encrypt your stuff and even then its questionable.
Until we reguard the net as an extention of our world we will always have issues with a morror of our world.
What that means is if we can get our world working offline it should work more or less online but we havn’t.
Its to easy for some of these companies to say sorry and move on but then you need a ballence.