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==How security relates to consumer rights== | ==How security relates to consumer rights== | ||
Security is both a blessing and a curse towards control over the things consumers own. Being forced to login to a laptop to use it is a sensible decision, being forced to connect your treadmill to the internet and gain authorization just to run on it (as seen [[Peloton Removes Just Run Feature|here]]) is not. Companies may use security as an excuse to reduce consumer control and so it is important to identify these misuses. If a company takes away consumer rights using security as an excuse the emperor may not have any clothes | Security is both a blessing and a curse towards control over the things consumers own. Being forced to login to a laptop to use it is a sensible decision, being forced to connect your treadmill to the internet and gain authorization just to run on it (as seen [[Peloton Removes Just Run Feature|here]]) is not. Companies may use security as an excuse to reduce consumer control and so it is important to identify these misuses. If a company takes away consumer rights using security as an excuse consider that "the emperor may not have any clothes" and their security is not as strong as they portray it. | ||
===Poor security principals harm the consumer=== | ===Poor security principals harm the consumer=== | ||