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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 06:28 PM EDT |
Well, actually the law is the correct solution here, as
there is a big inbalance between customer and
merchant/service provider. Hence you cannot assume that a
single customer can negotiate with the other party over
contract details.
Practically, you just need to forbid person-linkable data
without consent, e.g. a person orders something, so in your
order form they consent to your usage of the data for order
processing.
Basically turn the situation 180° degree, instead of the
customer fighting to control the usage his data, the company
that wants to use it has to prove that it's allowed so, e.g.
the normal reason being that the person allowed for the data
collection, with the provision that this permission can be
withdrawn at any time, without affecting any other
provisions of a contract. Add to this some specific reasons
as "needed to fulfill legal requirements by law", and you've
got a situation companies cannot just steal your data.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT |
I'm not at all comfortable with your equation to "merchants have been
tracking us for decades".
The old style tracking was specific to your interaction with said merchants.
You knew who was tracking, and, as noted, if you didn't like it you could sever
the relationship.
Tracking in the modern sense is not limited to your relationship with any
particular merchant or industry. It tracks everything you do online, even if
you have no valid business or relationship with the tracker. Its data is
further collected and indexed and resold to anyone who pays a fee, without you
having any way to know just what was used or how or by whom.
Yes, we have been tracked. But only in recent years has that tracking become so
pervasive that you no longer have any way to monitor it, and often, you aren't
even notified that its going on. Not the same at all.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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