Unbelievable! No one is going to devote hours to reading the Amazon Echo notices and contracts! Utterly ridiculous!
This is what you agree to when you buy+use an Amazon Echo:
17 contracts, 94 pages, estimated reading time: some hours. One of the contracts says you should check it "frequently to see recent changes" #iotcontractdisaster
(from @guidonld's #gikii18 talk: gikii.org/gikii-vienna-2018-…)
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I agree! There should be an easier way to read contracts. How about just using if then else statements. For example, if you give us your email address, then we will share it with our partners who will send marketing emails to you. 🤔
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Good suggestion; also, I'd like the first line of every contract to simply say "we will not share your information with anyone at any time, without your express permission", & go from there. And, so many other issues, such as, once data is shared, who controls that 3rd party.
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Oh no. The first line of every contract should simply say - "we will not collect any PII".
If not, security design is flawed and there is work to do.
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The problem is they have to collect some PII in order to complete your transaction: If you order something online, you have to give them your address for delivery of the product and a credit card for payment. But they shouldn’t use it for any other purpose.
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You are assuming something that I would suggest is simply untrue.
But yes, we have a lot of bad infrastructure including payments and delivery services.
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The first item on ANY security agenda should be to eliminate trackability through payment data - not ignoring all the other issues such as tax evasion, money laundering, identity fraud, bribes etc.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I suppose one could form a co-op that makes the purchases on behalf of its members, and people could pickup their items from a central location. I wonder though if those items are used in a crime, would it create criminal and civil liability for the co-op?
Sep 16, 2018 · 3:01 PM UTC
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