> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Roshchin > > $Subj. is filed: > > http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/instagram-privacy-lawsuit- > facebook-idINDEE8BN08N20121224 > > While people can be emotionally charged (as in outraged), this type of > lawsuit can create a weird precedent: even if you are providing free > services, you can be taken to court. > What would be next? A bum will sue somebody donating him money? >
if the donation required the bum to sign up to a legal contract first then yes, why not? A contract's a contract, free or not, and you can't expect to change it one-sidedly in your favour without some pushback. Besides, the services that Instagram, Google and so on provide are not free. The suppliers use your data for their own purposes, so that's what they get in return for the services. I spend an inordinate amount of time at work having to tell people this when they keep asking why they can't download 'free' shit onto their work computers, or save work documents on 'free' storage sites. B > I don't know how it is in other countries, but it feels that in the US, > a lot of people have a [false] sense of entitlement. > People so much used to "free" services, that it's hard to imagine what > would happen if Google would decide to close Gmail. > > > Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
