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Originally Posted by tmhall

And as Bira explained to you then (which is the reason I already told you on the last page that I don't think your phpMyAdmin argument is effective):




That is interesting, thanks. It illuminates a pretty serious failing of American privacy law IMO. However, where in that article does it say "a privacy policy does NOT constitute a contract between your users and yourself"? All I found is that the judge deemed the case had no merit "in part because the privacy policy posted on the airline's Web site was unenforceable unless plaintiffs claimed to have read it. " Obviously that doesn't apply to vBulletin, since in order to register people have to click a box that indicates that they have read the policies.

Bira didn't explain anything then, you are not referencing the post I am talking about...I don't even think you looked in the right thread actually. He posted the law...I quoted his post and showed which parts of the law seem to render this moot. Maybe find that post and check again...

It also still applies to vbulletin because you are making the assumption that ever vb owner leaves that checkbox and message working the default way which is not a good thing to assume...still applies here. Whether you think my argument is effective really isn't the point...it's up to whatever judge looks at it and with the wording you guys have used it would still stand...not every host has PHPMyAdmin installed...installing it would still be an active motion to get into the database....at any rate.

Its funny how half or more of these arguements don't even apply when you are on private property or attending say a school....where'd the privacy go there? It's private property, both the software/forums and the server they are on. I didn't get any notice when I went to school that my freedom of speech rights were limited but they were, and are legally limited. I'll wait for the first court case to test this as I'd love to see some personal user try and sue a non commercial personal website owner over this.....I would LOVE it!