Is Neflix about to steal my baby?

[JamesV]

For the past few days, Netflix has had a banner across the top of their page.

Paraphrased; "You must accept our new privacy terms". Maybe after a week a video cannot be viewed unless you hit accept, and I refuse to spend the time to understand lawyer speak.

I like Netflix and watch it daily. I'm not a terrorist, child molester, pyramid scheme con-man, nor a Republican; so I have no worries if some goverment trojan finds out I like The Big Bang Theory or the Walking Dead, so I just hit accept.

Stupid? Yes. Blindly acceptting something I know nothing about, but somebody is watching/evaluating these things. I'm looking at you ACLU an other organizations.

So WTF is this? Is Netflix going the route of "you can only sue us through binding arbitration", or this is a more sinister attempt to sneak some terrorist/pedophile privacy invasion policy into the service?

I usually find loads of informative and conspiracy-theory pieces at every search when a large company even thinks about changing their privacy policy, but not one mention of Netflix's warning message anywhere... wtf is this?

 

[Crono]

I quit Netflix before this happened. Hadn't heard of it.

It sounds like they are just trying to protect themselves better legally.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Edit: meh. Everyone sends out a privacy policy these days, and most of them just admit that they are selling your information to partners unless there are government regulations to stop them. Then they explain they will follow those regulations.

 

[Sonikku]

I got that same thing for like a year. Just never clicked on it and I never had a problem, though I'm not on any streaming plan so I don't know if they throttle that portion of their service until you cave. Such as it is, I got my dvds without issue for the entire length of time they kept getting me to click ok. Then after a year of that they changed the pop up into a "Accept the changes or ELSE" tone. A few weeks after that the window vanished entirely.

Never noticed any change in my service.

 

[Jeff7]

Most of these policies could be shortened significantly:
"Your information is our property now, but we won't distribute it unless someone offers us enough money for it. Anything that goes wrong that's our fault isn't really our fault, and you can't hold us responsible. Agree or get out."



Besides, the market for firstborns isn't too big right now.

 

[FoBoT]

what Dave said ^^^

either accept these privacy policies or go off the grid

your choice