Oh no…
Saturday, March 12th, 2005For the love of all that’s sacred, why?
Coming in 2005 to a theatre near you….
Well, I’m off to put out my eyes now. Good night.
(Thanks to CinemaBlend for the poster.)
Archive for March 12th, 2005
Another Reason to Hate America Online
Saturday, March 12th, 2005Imagine if your cell phone company recorded every single conversation you had and stored all of them in a huge database someplace. Everything: From your plans to go to the mall after work to company trade secrets.
Imagine further that they could make this database available to anyone they wanted–including selling it to other companies or playing conversations on advertisements.
Let’s also pretend that the cell phone companies had the capacity to send this database (or portions of it) anywhere in the world and could keep all of the data forever.
Scary picture, isn’t it?
Well, under the new America Online Instant Messenger service’s Terms of Service, they claim the right to do all of the above with your conversations on AIM.
Here’s the relevant portion of the Terms of Service agreement, my emphasis:
by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.
(via SlashDot)
