re: #122 engineer cat

muggers don’t have a legal right to mug you just because you chose to go down a dark alley

but i think what we have aired here is that:

1) when you contract for a carrier service you are probably signing a document that explicitly gives the carrier the legal right to use information about you as it sees fit. contract law is well settled and we should all read everything we sign in detail before signing it (as my lawyer father drummed into my thick head)

2) when you log onto a web page, information about you and your visit may, and most likely will, be logged and resold or otherwise re-used for commercial purposes, not because you gave consent, but because it is, apparently, legal for them to do so without your consent

agreed?

I believe it falls into the same category as having no expectation that you will not fall under surveillance in a public place.