Legal agreements to walk in the park?
posted June 20th, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Drove out to Lighthouse Park on a beautiful day to find the lot mostly empty. Turns out there was no cellular service. And the new parking system depends on that.
Then it dawned on me what I had to agree to. Not only the parking app's terms of service, but to my cellular carrier's, the maker of the phone and the operating system provider's. Add in the various privacy policy documents and terms of sale. You're looking at over a hundred pages of legal agreements.
To have a walk in the woods. Messed up.
6 Comments
Post a CommentIt was prophecied.
Jun 20, 2024 at 11:59am
User Agreements are the Mark of the Beast. It was foretold.
enlightenments
Jun 20, 2024 at 5:30pm
I quite like the confessions that are people coming to direct realizations about the state of things. BC, the lower mainland, and our peaceful west coast hasn't always been a mess. We created this recently, which means we can uncreate it. I have optimism for the people of our province.
click click
Jun 20, 2024 at 5:43pm
They're called 'click agreements' and the entities that employ them know damned well nobody reads them. If they did, no one would click their agreement. A lot of these are 100% geared to the companies who usually dictate they have no liability no matter what and that you have no rights and give up a whole lot of control over your data and what they do with it, where it resides and who has access to it. Scary as hell.
Only for the rich
Jun 20, 2024 at 7:18pm
This is class warfare. I had a similar problem at Whytecliff. The app that the qr code sent me to wouldn't accept any information. It was either don't pay and get an 86 dollar ticket, or leave. Meanwhile, the local residents can buy an annual pass for 20 bucks and park at will. I guess that I'm not going back.
Cash is King
Jun 21, 2024 at 12:05pm
Is paying by cash an option there?
Class warfare indeed
Jun 25, 2024 at 6:07pm
I agree, because some people don’t have a smartphone still, and lots of people don’t have credit, whether that’s by choice or circumstance. So restrictions based solely on one’s ability to have data and credit are completely unacceptable in my opinion. I see this as a human rights issue and I’m shocked that it hasn’t been challenged already. This is disgraceful. Everyone should be able to use the parks!
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