Comments on: Update: AOL Admits Waiver of All Privacy in AIM Terms of Service is Problematic http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/update-aol-admits-waiver-of-all-privacy-in-aim-terms-of-service-is-problematic Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:29:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ken http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/update-aol-admits-waiver-of-all-privacy-in-aim-terms-of-service-is-problematic#comment-1402 Ken Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:01:09 +0000 /?p=446#comment-1402 The only real assurance of privacy is the level of business ethics in AOL's corporate culture. By the time a court ruled in a lawsuit, the cat would be out of the bag. I'm more sceptical than Aunty about the enforceability of the TOS; but, since you can never recover lost privacy,it wouldn't matter, after the fact, whether AOL ultimately managed to convince a judge that enforcement of the TOS would not be unfair, unconscionable, against public policy, or barred under the doctrine of estoppel after the public "clarifications" by AOL's PR Dept. Either you trust AOL, or you don't. The only real assurance of privacy is the level of business ethics in AOL’s corporate culture. By the time a court ruled in a lawsuit, the cat would be out of the bag.

I’m more sceptical than Aunty about the enforceability of the TOS; but, since you can never recover lost privacy,it wouldn’t matter, after the fact, whether AOL ultimately managed to convince a judge that enforcement of the TOS would not be unfair, unconscionable, against public policy, or barred under the doctrine of estoppel after the public “clarifications” by AOL’s PR Dept.

Either you trust AOL, or you don’t.

]]> By: The Mu http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/update-aol-admits-waiver-of-all-privacy-in-aim-terms-of-service-is-problematic#comment-1350 The Mu Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:50:29 +0000 /?p=446#comment-1350 Whew! Whew!

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