pursuitofleisure t1_j3yem21 wrote on January 11, 2023 at 10:34 PM

Reply to comment by nowhereman1223 in Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook by deep_blue003v

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

Sonof8Bits t1_j3yl7ec wrote on January 11, 2023 at 11:17 PM

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

Wait.. this isn't r/jokes!

BaconAlmighty t1_j3z7jbo wrote on January 12, 2023 at 1:50 AM

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.”

nowhereman1223 t1_j3z4k95 wrote on January 12, 2023 at 1:29 AM

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.