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nowhereman1223 t1_j3xoyd5 wrote

Sounds awful but this is why you gotta read the full TOS or EULA or whatever they called it.

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pursuitofleisure t1_j3yem21 wrote

It's not consumers' fault they don't have time to read a novel for every purchase they make. Companies should stop being shitty, and the government should help keep this nonsense from happening

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Sonof8Bits t1_j3yl7ec wrote

Haha! The government not pissing on consumers and letting companies get away with literally anything, good one!

Wait.. this isn't r/jokes!

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BaconAlmighty t1_j3z7jbo wrote

These are 'Testers' not 'Consumers'. He said he did understand that videos would be taken from inside his home and that they would be tagged. “I felt that the company handled the disclosure of the data collection responsibly,” he wrote in an email, pointing to both the consent agreement and the device’s prominently placed sticker reading “video recording in process.” But, he emphasized, “I’m not an average internet user.”

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nowhereman1223 t1_j3z4k95 wrote

While I agree the current system is broken and should be fixed.

Consumers KNOW ITS BROKEN and need to be responsible. Now if they pulled something like Dufy did and straight up violated what they said they were doing and what the TOS said, yup, I'm with you.

But if they only followed what people agreed to, IN A BETA TRIAL, sorry but they should have read it before signing on.

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