The social norm that men approach women, in real life is tempered by the fact that women have multiple ways in communicating their interest without doing the main approach - through looks, touch, etc., in a way that is ambiguous and deniable. You can negotiate interest without actually breaking the 'order'.
I think we're headed straight for a big culture shock in that particular aspect though. As women rightfully rectify the state of things regarding sexual harassment, assault, etc., the expectation that ambiguity in responding to advances is acceptable will also have to vanish. Most men will not attempt an advance if the response could potentially turn into some form of accusation of depravity. Women will have to be more direct and obvious in their responses, or we'll see a sharp decline in relationships as overly cautious males avoid ambiguous women (which is currently still the majority of them). You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Mind you, I see that as a good thing. As a man, the last thing I want is to have to decipher the mess of social cues and ambiguous responses that women use. Give me a firm "yes" or "no" so we can both get on with our lives, and if that makes women have to shoulder part of the emotional distress that comes with rejection rather than just delay and muddy the waters until the man gives up? That's called equality.
This is making sure by design they (and maybe their partners, workforce, ex-workforce and 3-letter agencies) have acces to your private data.
Oh, cut the crap out with the conspiracy theories. The MyCloud system is all about allowing external access of your data (so you have your own "cloud" hosted locally), so it makes sense there'll be a way to access it. This is just plain laziness combined with zero oversight and total carelessness. It's awful, WD should be ashamed of themselves, but jumping to the "IT'S THE GUBINMENT STEALIN YER DATA" just makes you look like a fool.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones