it looked as if they (porovider) might have been reading the emails.
The IT manager exploded and confronted them. The response was chilling:
“I’m not saying we do - but we could. It’s in the contract. You should read the fine print, especially the unilateral amendment from two years ago.”.
“Unilateral agreement” here means that they send you a message saying “We’ve updated our TOS” and if you don’t reply otherwise, you agreed.
Horror story.
BTW:
All of this happened before the GDPR era, when certain practices could still slip through.
Oh shit, was halfway through when they mentioned being in EU. Don’t think it could happen (legally) in my country because we’ve got a privacy agency that’s quite older than GDPR (and one of its precursors). But it’s worrying.
In the UK we had the Data Protection Act before GDPR, but it was so full of words like “reasonable” and “appropriate” and “balanced” that is was basically homeopathic; I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this story was from the UK. I’m so glad GDPR got in before Brexit.
When shit like this happens it’s your responsibility to call these shitheads out.
This is like those AI slop youtube channels where they make up stories about celebrities with a suspicious lack of details. Sorry this needs names and specifics.
So, rather, a horrifying legal system.
Company people don’t give a shit about what they sign off on and make it other people’s problem. His first mistake was assuming people carried enough to actually do their job and not Fuck over their own company.
Or they may not understand the implications of what they are agreeing to.
…but but, free fighting for existence in ‘markets’ is great and gives prosperity and freedom for all ???
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