[Discuss] Mr Robot

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:35:18PM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> > From: Dan Ritter [mailto:dsr at randomstring.org]
> > 
> > For most people in most places,  blindly clicking "yup" on the
> > terms of service is exactly what they should do.
> > 
> > 99% will not get into legal trouble.
> 
> Oh, try this on for size:
> 
> Spotify, music streaming, essentially internet radio: requires access to contacts, photos, files, location, microphone. And probably some other stuff. A lot of people find that excessively creepy, and question if any of it is necessary to provide the service they want. Some of it might actually be useful, such as microphone to do voice commands, and location services to determine if you're in the middle of running and therefore in the mood for running music.

Uh, no, you just changed from "accepting ToS blindly" to
"granting permissions blindly".

-dsr-