<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>There already is. There always has been! It&amp;#x27;s called fraud.&lt;p&gt;If you trick someone into signing a contract, then that contract is fraudulent.&lt;p&gt;If you tell someone that you will ask their permission before doing something; then silently claim you already obtained that permission in a prior contract, &lt;i&gt;you are committing fraud&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know when our judicial system lost all of its teeth, but you sure as hell can&amp;#x27;t blame that on the citizens they are failing to defend.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; I took that screenshot on my own account. It’s toggled “on”—but I never turned it on myself.&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;i&gt;consent&lt;/i&gt; crisis as well, though I agree it&amp;#x27;s a smaller issue related to trust. There needs to be an actionable, legal definition of consent as it applies to website privacy—my naive assumption is that there was, but clearly that&amp;#x27;s not true, or it&amp;#x27;s not good enough or actionable enough—and it needs to preclude implying users must positively grant consent to harvest, process, or transfer data to third parties, when in fact the dirty deeds have already been done in secret.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The AI Trust Crisis</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Log_out_</author><text>Whatever comes out of the courts will be just another anchor point to abuse civilian VS cooperate power asymmetry. What we need is the ability to revert laws back to the thrust bust new deal era laws, crush the bad influence and rebuild.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; I took that screenshot on my own account. It’s toggled “on”—but I never turned it on myself.&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;i&gt;consent&lt;/i&gt; crisis as well, though I agree it&amp;#x27;s a smaller issue related to trust. There needs to be an actionable, legal definition of consent as it applies to website privacy—my naive assumption is that there was, but clearly that&amp;#x27;s not true, or it&amp;#x27;s not good enough or actionable enough—and it needs to preclude implying users must positively grant consent to harvest, process, or transfer data to third parties, when in fact the dirty deeds have already been done in secret.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The AI Trust Crisis</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/</url></story>