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I cannot believe the costly legal and compliance departments approve all of this. It seems more stupidity and not right due diligence, it is something that should concern stockholders as well.



I once had a startup that did image processing in the cloud.

Our lawyers recommended changing the TOS to allow us to use the imagery.

I strenuously disagreed, and tried to get them to explain their rationale for such a change. They never really provided a convincing answer.

(Literally, they argued that the company may someday accidentally use unlicensed imagery, and we want to protect ourselves from that liability. I suggested that the better policy should simply be more careful with our customer's data.)


How do they approve the Windows's "we can upload any data from your computer at any time" terms?

Corporation legal departments have been neglecting their jobs for a while now.


I understand that Microsoft is not doing it right now but it was an statement?


It's at their privacy policy for Win8 and 10. At the context, it's natural to assume they meant to talk about error reporting, but this is not stated anywhere. And it's been there for a while, and they never clarified this point...




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