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The service, Sina Weibo, imposed "user contracts" that award each of its 300 million microbloggers a starting score of 80 points.
Investigating our casual surrender of privacy rights every time we click the "Agree" button on those dense (and typically unread) online user contracts, the director Cullen Hoback outlines the real-life dangers of digital heedlessness.
The service imposed "user contracts" that award each of its 300 million members a starting score of 80 points, which can be deducted for violations like calling for protests or trying to evade censorship with puns.
While buyers of Pepper – a robot engineered to be emotionally responsive to humans – have signed user contracts promising they won't use it for "acts for the purpose of sexual or indecent behaviour", sex doll company True Companion is developing a robot that will be "always turned on and ready to play".
Foreign news services like Bloomberg and social networks like Facebook have been blocked, and in May, Sina Weibo initiated "user contracts," a point system that punishes users for a broad range of vague offenses, including spreading rumors and calling for protests.
Californian Jon Hart has filed a lawsuit against Comcast arguing that its throttling of BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.
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The result: a valid user contract.
"They are pulled directly from Chinese law and are applicable to Weibo posts regardless of whether Sina includes them in a user contract or not," it said.
The reason a valid user contract is important is that it shifts the argument from who's doing what to whom to what are we agreeing to do with our data.
Coming as it does from the enterprise IT stronghold of corporate hegemony, Windows and Office adoption collides with the new monetization challenge because of the lack of a legitimate user contract for behavioral data.
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