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Richard submitted:

“If you phone up Microsoft in the UK, the first thing you hear is a tape recording saying that your call will be routed out of the country in order that your personal data may then be used and collected for any purpose in a country that does not abide by the UK Data Protection Act (1998), and if you don’t like it, hang up now.

What is the point of having data protection laws if I am required to waive my rights under them as a pre-requisite to speaking to a company?”

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Wow. Not all that surprising, as the Gates’ and Jobs’ of the world can apparently do whatever they want, as they please, but this is the first I’ve heard such legislative sidestepping committed in such a straightforward manner.

Any other consumer experiences out there in which an automated voice notifies you before your rights are infringed upon?

(image via Ars Technica).

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The days of being the next Subway Jared (with a lifetime of free food and years of paid commercials for being a reformed but still chubby dork) are long gone, I fear.

Just like CBS and their 15 seconds Super Bowl Commercial hijinks with YouTube, Southwest Airlines signed up with the Tube for the NBA Playoffs.

The Wanna Get Away contest invites anyone and everyone to submit a 30-second video of original content. The grand prize being that it will be shown. On TV. During a basketball game. “You have the chance to have millions of people laugh at you.” And…

Entrants grant permission to Sponsor to use their names, likenesses, biographical information for promotional or advertising purposes in all media worldwide, without notice or further compensation

It’s more like — Wanna Give Yourself Away? ….Be exploited your entire life, without a dime or free flight to show for it?

http://www.southwestwannagetaway.com/rules/

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