{"id":11952,"date":"2009-03-21T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/03\/21\/11952.html"},"modified":"2009-03-21T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T01:37:00","slug":"authorized-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/03\/21\/authorized-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorized charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just saw this in AT&T's Wireless Terms of Service for California customers:<\/p>\n

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You are not liable for charges you did not authorize, but the fact that a call was placed from your phone is evidence that the call was authorized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let me see if I've got this straight: if someone makes an unauthorized call, I'm not liable for those charges, as long as the call wasn't from my phone.<\/p>\n

. . . It turns out that this isn't quite as stupid as it appears; it's actually just missing a clause. It should say: \"[...] the fact that a call was placed from your phone is evidence that the call was authorized unless you reported your phone lost or stolen<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n

The rest of the paragraph (which I left out for comic effect) does explain that after you report a phone lost or stolen, you're no longer liable for charges. So the information is all there; it's just poorly presented.<\/p>\n

So I figured it couldn't hurt to mock their presentation.<\/p>\n

(I'm not disputing any charges, btw; this isn't anything to do with me. I just happened across that paragraph when I went to pay my phone bill, and was amused at how Catch-22<\/cite>\/Brazil<\/cite>ish it seemed.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just saw this in AT&T’s Wireless Terms of Service for California customers: You are not liable for charges you did…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-service","category-editing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}