| >>And in that set, you predicated that the user could not revoke consent. No I didn't. I said that these contracts enable the user to sell their personal data. If a personal data sales contract includes a clause allowing you to 'revoke consent' AFTER 'selling' your data, then you are renting your data, not selling it. By making contracts without such clauses illegal, you are reducing the space of contractual interaction, in making it impossible to sell one's personal data. >>That means that it is not a free contract. Again, I have difficulty responding to such immature mischaracterizations of reality. Selling your personal data is a 100% "free contract". >>No, what was absolutely reckless was the attitude of this industry that they should be entitled to suck up every last piece of data they could. You obviously don't care to debate this issue based on rational arguments and facts. You're debating in bad faith. You've already made up your mind and are more than willing to mischaracterize the situation, and people's position, to push your views. >>It still affects your future self. Everything you do affects your future self, but this particular type of sale does not cover data genereted by your future self. It only covers what you have already generated. It's absurd and totally dishonest to compare it to selling oneself into slavery. It's nothing more than hysterical fearmongering about the free market, in support of government limiting people's contractual rights. >>Once again, you have twisted this idea of "freedom" so badly, that you are claiming that it is anti-freedom for the user to have the freedom to withdraw consent! You're once again mischaracterizing the ability to re-voke a sale, after the fact, as "withdraw consent". When you sell something to someone, you no longer have a claim to that something, and thus the other party no longer needs your consent to maintain ownership of it. That I really need to explain the semantics of ownership to you, and explain how allowing retroactive and unilateral reversals of sales makes it impossible to sell something, shows just how completely delusional and dishonest you're being. |