The IT Nerd

Yesterday, I posted a story about Adobe changing their terms of use and sparking an uproar about it. At the time I said this:

Adobe could really do itself a favour by clarifying this. Because until they do, people are going to have the impression that Adobe products are basically spyware when in reality they’re likely not. Thus I’ve pinged Adobe over this and if I actually get a response, I’ll post it here.

I said that because Adobe really wasn’t saying anything about this to address this issue. But that changed when Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky responded to the Tweet that started this:

 I encourage you to read the entire Tweet. But The fact that Adobe as of the time that this story is written doesn’t train AI models with customer data isn’t something that inspire any confidence as their terms could allow Adobe to do so in the future.

Now if you read the entire Tweet, Belsky does say that this could be clearer. But he also uses the “everyone else does this” excuse. Which again doesn’t inspire confidence in Adobe. And from what I can tell, this isn’t going over really well on Twitter.

The bottom line is this. Even with this response from a C level executive at Adobe, I have shifted my opinion from “let’s give Adobe a chance to respond because this may not be as bad as it seems” to “Adobe is possibly setting the groundwork to do something suspect with your data in the future.” And I am likely not the only person who is thinking that given how many people are now threatening to dump Adobe products because of this. Maybe Adobe should take that into account and come up with a strategy to address these concerns and put this to bed before their reputation gets damaged beyond repair.

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