In an email sent to customers earlier this week viewed by Engadget, the company announced that it had made updates to the “Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section” of its terms of service that would prevent customers from filing class action lawsuits.
  • hi_its_me@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    PSA: you can request deletion of your 23andMe account. It won’t do anything for this past hack, but it’ll at least prevent your data from being included in future hacks (assuming they actually completely delete your data like they’re supposed to).

    • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      it’s almost always a soft delete, that is, change active field in database to false, coupled with their terms of service that state vaguely how they start the deletion process which could take months and how they may still keep certain data for legitimate purposes.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I feel like ToS changes should require the user to accept before being enforceable with no right to suspend the user’s account if they don’t and when it comes to data it should only apply to data the user shared after the changes…

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    2 years ago

    Poor reporting, as ever. As people have pointed out, you cannot disclaim away the Law. No one can.

    If you did a bungee jump, and you sign any kind of waiver, it might protect the company if your glasses fall off and smash. It will not protect them if the rope snaps and break your head.

    • lhx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Lawyer here: this isn’t necessarily correct and in America it’s state dependent. There are absolutely parts of the law you can waive, including negligence of a party which is likely your bungee jumping scenario with the rope snapping.

    • LOLjoeWTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      My understanding is that when signing a liability waiver, first the acknowledgement of risk happens, and then the release of liability. State by state it can be a little bit different for releasing liability, depending on the interpretation. I looked up where I live, and that liability waiver isn’t upheld if one can prove damages (possibly death, in which case someone has to sue upon my lifeless corpse) caused by intentional recklessness, not simply neglect.

      • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It would be interesting to look into some cases. My statement was based on not being able to disclaim negligence at all.

    • be_gt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Olnly if you opt out of the new terms, at least in us.IANAL of course