Comment by otterley
1 day ago
That doesn’t matter. If you authorize an agent—human or mechanical—to enter into agreements on your behalf (even by mistake), and the agent presents itself as operating on your behalf, the agent’s decisions will be treated as though they were your own.
Prinicipal-agent law predates computers by a very long time.
What if an IT guy installs one of those “cookie banner be gone” extensions without the user’s permission?