To have a valid train ticket on your phone (for those without printer), you are also required to accept the google or apple terms of service and privacy policy. You can download a pdf ticket, but the data matrix on there is only valid if you print it out!
Last year a big hosting company in the Netherlands introduced a requirement for existing customers to accept the Google TOS/PP before being allowed to log in. Support of course did not see the issue, like literally could not find it. I had to send them screenshots with markings before they saw that the google captcha they had introduced includes some small gray links.
This might not even be such a big deal if the privacy policy explained the data sharing that will actually happen. Rather, there is one fairly short document that applies to literally everything from hosted email to captchas to hardware in your home. Thus it has to say that they will use all gathered data for basically any purpose. Something tells me this cannot possibly be legal (iirc GDPR requires specific and understandable language), but that's the state of affairs.
(Another interesting example was me asking in a chat with ~100 people whether anyone had read the TOS update yet from our broker—the place where you keep your pension money and stuff. The only reaction I got was "anyone reads that? xD".)
Kinda bothers me that everyone is just going along with any terms for convenience. It's ripe for abuse and doesn't have to be this way.
Last year a big hosting company in the Netherlands introduced a requirement for existing customers to accept the Google TOS/PP before being allowed to log in. Support of course did not see the issue, like literally could not find it. I had to send them screenshots with markings before they saw that the google captcha they had introduced includes some small gray links.
This might not even be such a big deal if the privacy policy explained the data sharing that will actually happen. Rather, there is one fairly short document that applies to literally everything from hosted email to captchas to hardware in your home. Thus it has to say that they will use all gathered data for basically any purpose. Something tells me this cannot possibly be legal (iirc GDPR requires specific and understandable language), but that's the state of affairs.
(Another interesting example was me asking in a chat with ~100 people whether anyone had read the TOS update yet from our broker—the place where you keep your pension money and stuff. The only reaction I got was "anyone reads that? xD".)
Kinda bothers me that everyone is just going along with any terms for convenience. It's ripe for abuse and doesn't have to be this way.