We have absolutely no privacy legislation at all. The only avenues we have for recourse are violations of companies' privacy policies and those are small civil claims.

What we need is comprehensive privacy legislation both with respect to private parties but as well a restoration of our protection from unlawful searches and seizures by our own government. Oh wait, everyone says if you don't have anything to hide then who cares if the government spies on you in your postal mail, your home, your computer, your television, etc.

Big gov't ain't got nothing on big business. Glad I'm in my 60's, but I fear what my kids, grandkids will face.

always put tape over the built in webcam on your laptop. sometimes I wonder if she's right..

Those places are one of the biggest scams around. Just how much do the piece of crap computers they were hawking at rent to own prices end up costing if one pays the whole way through to owning it? At least about three times retail I would guess.

Peace

a tv, 'entertainment center', stereo and vcr. Bob had to fix the vcr. They were USED.... had we paid til it was done we would have paid $3000 for this set. At tax time we went out and bought an entertainment center.... a nice one.... a tv, a vcr, stereo AND a camcorder for under $1000. these folks prey on the poor. Another way poor people end up paying more for everything. We never would have been able to get credit at that point.

Back in 2003 I rented/purchased a computer from rent a center. I ended up paying literally 4 times the price of the computer if I had bought it in a regular store.

What a fucking rip off!! Never again.

If I illegally filmed two people in "intimate activities" in the privacy of their own home, I would go to jail, and for a long time too.

It's insane.

PB

Arbeit macht Frei.

Or just repeating what was uncovered then?

http://techland.time.com/2011/05/03/rent-to-own-outfit-allegedly-spied-on-pc-customers-with-webcam/

... shouldn't the company be charged? Maybe as a sexual predator? Should there stores be prohibited from locating near schools?

They put those on high risk car loans

...but how is nobody going to jail for this?

that people rarely read :p


most people sign or click without reading statements unfortunately

so we voluntarily give up our rights


its like people on Facebook who post those rants about 'I don't give permission to use anything on my page'... uh, yeah ya did.. ya did when ya clicked on 'I agree' when ya signed up. my favs are the ones telling government or law enforcement they have no right to look at or use anything on their page against them... lol... riiiiiiight...
:p

Like the govt would be like "Whoah, hold on boys. This here says we can't look at any of this, we'd better call it a day."

belong in jail.

I don't trust it. And it can hear me, and sometimes respond to my requests , and sometimes just goes mute randomly. It hates me. I call it Christine. It loves my husband though. Does whatever he says. I wonder sometimes if there is a human on the other end messing with me. At least they can't see me have sex in the living room. That is some outrageous shit. Never rent to own!!!!!

webcam is not illegal.
I have been told that the NSA also uses this software. As I understand it, your computer doesn't even need to be
powered on for them to use your webcam to spy on you.
Yes, I have also been instructed (by my computer guy, who sold me this computer, to cover the webcam when not in use.
This is not a CT.
The software for spying on us is on the open market. Who is naïve enough to believe the NSA does not use it?

They can also control, upload/ download whatever they want from your computer.
Ever have (or seen the commercial for) your computer remotely "fixed" by allowing the company tech to remotely take-over the use of
your computer?
It is a simple program that IT people use often.

But if you use it to shoot somebody, then it's a crime. If you use legal software to commit crimes, then it's a crime.

Renting a computer or a television or cheap furniture doesn't make any sense to me.

Some things I have the skills to make much nicer than anything I could buy ready-made, certainly better than anything Aaron's rents. My computers are salvage. My car has a salvage title. My computers work exactly the way I want them to work, all set up using open source software. There's nothing on them that I didn't put there.

I learned how to "make-do or do without" as a kid. Sometimes our family was poor, but as kids we were never hungry or insecure in our persons. It wasn't a big deal if our family went months without television. (I later learned how to repair televisions.)

Some kind of resilience or resourcefulness and wariness about credit scams is something that should be taught in school if kids are not learning it at home, along with cooking from scratch, sewing, minor household repairs, gardening, etc.; both boys and girls.

I suspect I know why it isn't done: it goes against the corporate consumer model that is so profitable for the very wealthy, the one where the only way to satisfy one's needs and desires (largely desires generated by advertising) is to buy or rent something relentlessly advertised and shiny.