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Ask Slashdot: Do We Need Opt-Out-By-Default Privacy Laws?


"In large, companies failed to self-regulate," writes long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM: They have not been respected the individual's right to privacy. In software and web interfaces, companies have buried their privacy setting so deep that they cannot be found in a reasonable amount of time, or a...

"In large, companies failed to self-regulate," writes long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM: They have not been respected the individual's right to privacy. Are laws needed that protect a person's privacy by default--unless specific steps are taken by that user/purchaser to relinquish it? Should a legal owner who purchased a product expect it to stop functioning--only because a newer user contract is not agreed to?

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