North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Web hijacking by router - a new method of advertisement by Belkin
[email protected] wrote: > How original of them! But for other router manufactures present on > this > list, make notice - DO NOT DO IT IN YOUR OWN PRODUCT EVER. I (and from > newsgrousp there are appears to be many others with same opinion > about it) > do not want routers modifying my network packets without my knowledge > about it and definetly not for marketing of your own products. Note, I am no legal professional here, but to looking forward to others being stupid; In the UK I am reasonable certain that this breaks a number of separate laws that no amount of "EULA" type small print can get around. For those interested, I suggest looking at the protection offered (assuming this product is sold to consumers in the first instance) the various "Sale of Goods" acts, UK and EU "unfair terms in [consumer] contracts" ("but the small print says..."), "computer misuse act" (modification of data without permission), data protection (leaked URLs) and I am sure many more. Now if only we had government departments that actually cared and helped lean on these types of idiot. I hope that the US - the largest single market for technology products I assume - has a similar bunch of useful [consumer] law. Peter
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