cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

Oh no. Someone just realized that after agreeing to a contract allowing it, information willingly given to a company essentially gives that company the right to do whatever they want with that information. Drrr. That someone is Harriet Jacobs, ultra-victim.

I’m approving this after deleting hundreds of comments like this, since I’ve addressed this a few times already

This explains why the comments are basically an extension of the yawnfest, where it’s all, “Oh, your situation is so bad. SUE THEM!” I giggled when I read that she should get a cease and desist order, with all of the white knights chiming in.

I opted out of Buzz when it arrived, but it still auto-followed.

Hm, what is the law that protects someone in this case? I’m more than guessing that there isn’t one, since it’s probably stipulated in the contract that services may or may not work properly and data you give them still belongs to them. You opted in to just about everything when you decided to use Google services. Read the not-so-fine print. Or, hey, since you are an ultra-victim, maybe you should not make anything public in the first place.

So! All future comments about, “Turn Buzz off,” “Make your stuff private,” “Don’t approve contacts,” “Make your profile private,” “You shouldn’t have approved Buzz in the first place” are to be deleted, because I DID ALL THOSE THINGS.

Google is not in the business of protecting anyone’s privacy. Haven’t you read the news since they started business? Do you know anything about the people you gave your “private” information to? Did you gamble with your life (!) and incorrectly expect them to be in that business? Google sucks for a lot of reasons, but not because you still live up to your history of misplacing trust.

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