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Posted - 2012.05.01 22:05:00 -
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highonpop wrote:
1 - We are not all in Germany
2 - Germany's legal precedents don't hold any water on the international scope
3 - This is not even a legal issue because you signed away those privacy rights when you accepted the EULA
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1. CCP does business in Germany and is thus prosecutable under German Law, reference Italian and German (and now EU) cases against Google for You Tube.
2. Privacy and accountability are held at different levels based on national law, are defined by nations, and are enforced by said nations. In the case for Google vs Italy, a mentally disabled boy was recorded and said video was posted on you tube. Google was found to be negligent for the privacy breach, even though Google never video taped the boy, nor posted the video(although they removed the video immediately after being notified of the offensive nature of the video), though the case is now in appeals.
3. EULA and TOS have been ruled against as legally binding documents. I can put in a EULA/TOS that I have the right to harvest your organs, doesn't make it legal. There is a rather outstanding case against Microsoft and their exceptionally brutal EULA/TOS in Windows XP that was overturned in US courts. I have a little fuzy as to the nature of the dispute, but it had to do with installing the OS on multiple computers. If I remember correctly Microsoft was trying to say that every computer needed a unique OS, even if said owner built a new computer or simply changed mobo/cpu. It was ruled that the user had purchased a single license of Windows XP and was legally permitted to run a single license of Windows XP, regardless of the computer in which it was running without breaching copy right protections.
That all being said, I don't believe that disclosure of evemails is a breach of any form of privacy, though if information is contained within that media, it may be ruled by some of the more conservative nations that it is. I just thing the OP needs to stop bitching so much. |