Popular audio company Sonos recently updated its U.S. privacy policy to make a small but notable change that seemingly puts customer data at risk. As...
We should be demanding changes to consumer laws. Any changes to the TnC that are not agreed to by existing customers should result in a full refund, irrespective of how long the customer has owned the product. If I’ve had a Bluetooth speaker for ten years and the manufacturer suddenly decides to sell my data, I want my money and my data back.
By then, the customers will already have amassed a ton of data on the servers. No real way to prove they’ve actually deleted it, and we’ve heard the ‘anonymized’, ‘no identifying data’ and ‘marked for deletion’ lines before.
Just don’t trust your data with corporations. It’s that simple. Except when it isn’t.
Learn about single use emails on sign up, and don’t get attached to your accounts. If theres an equivalent for phone numbers, someone pls share.
What’s the point of TNC if they can unilaterally change them at will?
We should be demanding changes to consumer laws. Any changes to the TnC that are not agreed to by existing customers should result in a full refund, irrespective of how long the customer has owned the product. If I’ve had a Bluetooth speaker for ten years and the manufacturer suddenly decides to sell my data, I want my money and my data back.
By then, the customers will already have amassed a ton of data on the servers. No real way to prove they’ve actually deleted it, and we’ve heard the ‘anonymized’, ‘no identifying data’ and ‘marked for deletion’ lines before.
Just don’t trust your data with corporations. It’s that simple. Except when it isn’t.
Learn about single use emails on sign up, and don’t get attached to your accounts. If theres an equivalent for phone numbers, someone pls share.