22 August 2009

Privacy, or how much everyone owns you by accepting these terms of service.

This is nothing new. "By entering these premises you acknowledge our right to use images of you in any promotional materials..."

Wait, so I paid you $500 to get my family of five into your dated ass-clown theme park and you're going to use our pictures of us eating junk in your park, that I again paid for, in your ads and I'm not even getting some money back? Okay fine mouseboy, little Billy is screaming his fool head off. You win this round, but I would avoid your cheese when you get home.

So why do we care about sites like facenook or mytrace using, or even owning, our stuff for their benefit amongst themselves and their partners?

Well, because it is easier for them to take a picture you uploaded 15 seconds ago, have a nerd in Palo Alto say "damn this girl is hot" and flag it for horndog advertising that requires pics of sexy bitches which they got for free, but they sell as a service to their "authorized" partners.

That's right upload your pic of you during that foam party at Senor Schlongs, you'll may be used in a banner advertising birth control, dating sites for recovering meth addicts, herpes cream, and extra large adult toys.

At least you'll get paid and be famous right? Nope, but facenook and the like will, and they're stock worth will be bigger than that adult toy next to your face in that banner. Go ahead, click it and see what you like, your boss will.

Someone needs to stop all of this. The theme parks, the social sites, business in general, and the dicks in HR who think it's okay for your employer to be THAT involved in your personal business.

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