Thread: Adobe DE 4 spies on users
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Old 10-09-2014, 01:01 PM   #158
mandy314
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
What is the basis for the "right" to privacy that so many people seem think they have?
In Germany we have something called "Informationelle Selbstbestimmung" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informa...-determination) which itself is based on fundamental constitutional rights (Persönlichkeitsrecht - Art. 2 Abs. 1 Grundgesetz).
Some TOS (Facebook, Google iirc) were under close public scrutiny in Germany. The tracking/logging done by ADE4 is for sure borderline w/o an explicit opt-in by the user and/or for books without Adobe DRM. If a court would see (part of) the data-upload as not necessary for the original purpose of the software (view books / DRM functions) the unspecific TOS/EULA wouldn't help Adobe - but who knows (or who will go to court in Germany against an american firm like Adobe) ...
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