LWN: Comments on "The value of privacy policies"

this make all signed but unread contracts unenforcable

ernest — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:44:15 +0000

In fact anybody could claim they just didn't read it in the first place, if that's convenient.

I think, though, that that juge overstepped it's bounds by declaring these privacy statement can be overrulled as nobody reads them anyway.

This outcome made everybodies jaws drop by about a meter over at Groklaw.

The value of privacy policies

knobunc — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:41:38 +0000

Well, that's fine as long as the same holds true for their "Terms of Use".

Somehow, I doubt that a court will let that slide... "Yer Honor, I admit that I scraped the content off the site, but I hadn't read the Terms of Use, so it is okay."

-ben

Alternative lawsuit

pm101 — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:14:37 +0000

Would it be possible to resue over false advertising, rather than breach-of-contract?