NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself 150
Okian Warrior writes "Attendees to this year's New York Comic Con convention were allowed to pre-register their RFID-enabled badges online and connect their social media profiles to their badges — something, the NYCC registration site explained, that would make the 'NYCC experience 100x cooler! For realz.' Most attendees didn't expect "100x cooler" to translate into 'we'll post spam in your feed as soon as the RFID badge senses that you've entered the show,' but that seems to be what happened."
Re:Ooops! Sorry (Score:5, Interesting)
They didn't "ask" for permission. They inferred it from people providing their twitter account info. There wasn't even an "opt-out" option because people didn't know this was going to happen.
When you grant a third party access to sent Tweets on your behalf, don't you click through a warning telling you that? Why would you give a convention permission to send Tweets as you, and if you do, why would you be surprised when they do?
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Re:Prosecute them ... (Score:2, Interesting)
Now, it's implicit (and probably explicit too) in the Slashdot ToS (and the user's expectations) that Slashdot gets to repeat back anything I type into the comment box, and further, that they get to attribute it to me (as long as I don't post as Anonymous Coward.) I am authorizing Slashdot to use my identity to repeat my words back to the rest of their community. (I use the jmac_the_man handle in several other places on the internet, most of which are linked with my real name. It's not exactly my identity, but it's an OK proxy. Also, several people do use their real names.)
Now what if you tell Slashdot to post something, and then change your mind about it? Slashdot doesn't have a delete option, and thus, they get to keep repeating something to their community, using your identity, that you would rather they not repeat. You have given a third party, Slashdot, permission to speak on your behalf, and thus they get to do so.
The organizers of Comic Con aren't any different. If you give them permission to speak on your behalf, they get to speak on your behalf. If you don't like that, don't let them speak on your behalf.
"hawkguy is at nycc" vs. their lies. abused access (Score:5, Interesting)
In the few cases an app has posted on my social media accounts, it's been a benign (and true) message like "raymorris is at NY Comic Con". That's what a respectable organization might do and what I'd expect from a company that wants to keep my business.
On the other hand, what they did is misleading and they are assholes for doing it. Just because I give someone access to something doesn't excuse them for abusing that access. One of my employees has access to the company checkbook. If she abuses that access she could go to jail.