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Originally Posted by flowrebmit
Unfortunately, legally all that would be needed for our consent, is a change in the T&C and notification that the T&C had changed, and then our continued use of the service.
I am aware from postings here that an advisory group has opinioned that this is not sufficient in their view, and that explicit consent should be sought. There is also the argument that web sites haven't agreed to an interception of their pages (and if the site is password protected may have their own T&C that forbids interception), but there is also a counter-argument to this. Has any of this been tested in court, I doubt it.
I also very much dislike web based T&C, such as Virgin Media's T&C, because they are put onto web sites, without any form of checksum and independent way of verifying that the contents have not changed. If we don't already do so, we should be saving the T&C and AUP to files on our hard drive to be able to later verify what has changed. (I bet most of us haven't!)
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I always think T&C's are sham. You cant exactly say no and still use the item. How many times can you legally buy a piece software and say NO and still install it.
OF1975 Could be but it still strange action if they are to only keep this data the length they say. It also lays into mistrust of the whole system.
If we forget, accidently or even malware deletes the opt out we can be done.
I still think if they want to claim they are honest there is NO need for opted out to have there data mirrored still. It slimy way to run things.
Then again pc industry done it for years like the T&C's you have to be forced to accept if you want to use the purchase you bought.
You cant read often the T&C's before purchase either.