Equus
Royal Order of Security Specialists
Late Night Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.11 03:03:00 -
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Geil Ding wrote:You know, the whole problem is not about game related mails made public but personal information about stuff like health. The API does not filter those out. A spy would never copy/paste personal information to a public website as it holds no "ingame value" to be used.
Let me ask this: If I would post links to illegal content, like movies, and eveskunk automatic make them public. Who would be wrong? Eveskunk for making links to illegal content public? CCP for helping eveskunk retreiving the mails? The person sharing the API? Or the person sending a personal mail to his/her friends?
I have not read all of this thread, I had to stop here, and honestly, just stop, you are wrong, completely wrong. I shall now give you a real example, hmmm, I wonder if there is another large company or two out there that allow users to hand out verification codes so that those sites can garner information... I don't know, maybe a little site called Facebook...
You see, when you link your Facebook account to a webpage, or an app, or anything of the third party can do whatever they want with your information, that is why Facebook warns you and says something along the lines of: This app/page waill have access to: your contacts, your pictures, yadda, yadda. Now, if you don't read said sites privacy policy, they can pretty much do whatever they like with their scraped information. You have no legal recourse, you agreed to make it available, same thing here, YOU make your mails available through your api not CCP. If you honestly think you have legel precident sue a company like Facebook, they have much deeper pockets... and yes Facebook has had it's wrist slapped for privacy, but that usually stemmed from not making privacy options available and/or readily visible. You cannot sue Facebook because you gave out personal information. You signed away your privacy in the EULA.
Now, for the dumbest argument, "Someone can copy and paste my eve mail!!!!", seriously? So shall we sue google too? An ex copy and pasted an email I sent to somewhere else, Google facilitated her, I am sueing!!!!
Seriously, please think a little, no argument you have made holds any water, if you eve mail, email, snail mail, pass me a note, whatever, if you do not have it from me explicitly and in writing that I will maintain any privacy, you will pretty much be S.O.L. The absolute most you can do is if it goes somewhere public you can ask for it to be taken down. Unless you are hacked and your private information is quite literally stolen, you have nothing.
Please, stop giving developers a bad name, I would like to think the majority of us can use our heads.
I hope I covered everything clear enough, if not I will be happy to try and clarify. |