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Have Terms of Service Become Totalitarian Tools?

posted by Dopefish on Monday February 24 2014, @05:00PM   
from the don't-click-ok-to-accept-the-eula dept.

andrew writes:

"Alternet.org reports recent updates to terms of conditions for Bank of Americas cell phone app and Capital Ones new credit card contract have given banks unsettling new abilities. These privileges include the authority to access to your phone microphone and camera or even showing up at your workplace and home unannounced at any time.

From the the article:

We're witnessing a new era of fascism, where corporations are creating intrusive and over-bearing terms and conditions that customers click to agree to without even reading.

As a result, corporations in America have acquired king-like power, while we're the poor serfs that must abide by their every rule or else."

• Corporations aren't that powerful (Score: 1) by mi on Monday February 24 2014, @07:55PM

  by mi (2538) on Monday February 24 2014, @07:55PM (#6290)

  Show up uninvited at your home

  Even if some stuffed suit does show up, there is nothing they can do, if you don't want to talk to them.

  Police, meanwhile, can ram your front door in a second after whispering "Police" and shoot your dog [policestateusa.com] for "being threatening".

  A corporation may have the information about you, but, at worst, it will use it to market crap to you. Government agencies, on the other hand, may carefully "leak" the information to your political opponents [washingtonpost.com]. And whereas you have some control over what you tell a corporation, submitting information to government is usually mandatory.

  As the serfs vote themselves more and more "free" stuff from the government, they expand the government's power over everybody including themselves...

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  Somewhere in Chicago a community is missing its organizer