- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 16:00:35 -0500
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
On 2/12/23 14:10, Bob Wyman wrote: > . . . > Current law, in many jurisdictions, now protects individuals from > government abridgement of rights. But those same laws usually don't > protect us from abridgements which result from contractual > relationships between individuals and corporations. Agreed, and people are so conditioned to mindlessly accept ridiculously long click-through agreements, that companies could easily have people signing away their entire digital identities without knowing it. Case in point: Last I looked, indeed.com's click-through agreement was a whopping 100 pages!!! At an average of $300/hour for an attorney, it would cost a consumer thousands of dollars just to have it reviewed. Big companies and consumers do NOT have equal bargaining power in negotiating these click-through agreements. The "free market" doesn't work when the parties do not have equal bargaining power. That's why we have anti-trust laws to regulate monopolies, and why we need similar laws regarding click-through agreements. David Booth
Received on Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:00:48 UTC