Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by underdeserver on Monday December 11, 2023 @03:01AM (#38598560)

Not a lawyer so I might be reading this wrong - but to me this says "We might sell the company to someone else, and they in turn might sell it to anyone", and that's a bit scarier.

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Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by arp242 on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:12AM (#38600767)

You can't prevent that, not really. That "section 6.3" applies to every company, but these ToS are a bit more upfront about it.

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Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by actionfromafar on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:07AM (#38601793)

You can't prevent it, but you can make it a breach of contract.

(Where the new buyer would breach the contract if passing data on.)

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Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by mynameisash on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:55AM (#38601670)

> You can't prevent that, not really.

Couldn't you simply codify in the ToS that PII or even most/all historical metadata would be scrubbed upon the sale of the company? IANAL, but I would assume that a company could commit themselves in the user agreement in such a way that it guarantees some protection against this kind of concern.

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Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by arp242 on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:07PM (#38602339)

You can always change the terms of service; no one would really notice a detail like this.

And things like email addresses are "PII", and maybe some more things that are required to actually run this business. So "scrub all PII" isn't really a very feasible thing to do in the first place.

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Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by antiframe on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:09AM (#38601805)

Is forced selling a thing for sole proprietorships? Is including data in a sale forced? You can prevent that if you want two ways:

1) Don't sell the company 2) Sell the company sans data (destroy it first)

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Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet by arp242 on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:02PM (#38602293)

So your "solution" is 1) never change interests, 2) never have health problems, 3) never retire, 4) well live forever basically?

And no one is going to buy a company stripped of all customer data.

This is just not realistic. Any company or website that lives long enough will change hands eventually, whether it's "selling" or handing it to your first-born son, or whatever, for any number of reasons, and when that happens you lose control. The best you can do is hand it over to someone you trust (if that's possible), but nothing is fool-proof.

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