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

Link: https://ask.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/04302...

"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
an unreasonable amount of steps are needed to attempt to retain data. These
companies have taken away the individual's right to privacy --by default. Are
laws needed that protect a person's privacy by default--unless specific steps
are taken by that user/purchaser to relinquish it? Should the wording of the
explanation be so written that the contract is brief, explaining the
forfeiture of the privacy, and where that data might be going? Should a
company selling a product be required to state before purchase which rights
need to be dismissed for its use? Should a legal owner who purchased a
product expect it to stop functioning--only because a newer user contract is
not agreed to? Share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments.
What's your ideal privacy policy? And do we need opt-out-by-defaut privacy
laws?

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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