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A comment on Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Privacy Law. Parent comment

Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by hshehehjdjdjd on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:14PM (#17233109)
You have a constitutional right to privacy from the government. There is no such constitutional right (in the U.S.) that would prevent private surveillance, especially in cases where it is consensual.
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Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by Krasnol on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:39AM (#17244820)
How can anything be consensual even under the broken US law if one side doesn't know about it or at least doeasn't understand what is happening?!
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Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by hshehehjdjdjd on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:05AM (#17246759)
At least in US law, it is incumbent on the parties of a contract to understand it. If they sign without understanding, that’s on them. Terms of use are a contract between you and a website owner. If you don’t understand them, you can either not use the website, or accept the risk that you’re consenting to something you may not like. (Again, this is the current state in the U.S. I’m aware it’s different elsewhere.)
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