On: MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies

[s73v3r_]

I think that's the thing people are upset about: Many of these deceptive practices are not illegal, and probably should be. The EU has a good start with their new data privacy legislation; the US needs to adopt that.

[chiefalchemist → s73v3r_]

They're upset because...they're getting something for next to nothing (in terms of hard dollars)?

Should there be more transparency? Sure.

But even so, being naive is only going to manifest itself somewhere else. The Nanny State will never win that race.

[s73v3r_ → chiefalchemist]

"They're upset because...they're getting something for next to nothing (in terms of hard dollars)?"

That's a rather disingenuous way of putting it.

"The Nanny State"

That's an even more disingenuous way of putting things.