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I am starting to wonder what all have I consented to? Every week I learn I have consented to this and that because of a news article as I never read those contr
by itchyjunk 8y ago
I am starting to wonder what all have I consented to? Every week I learn I have consented to this and that because of a news article as I never read those contracts or TOS. I wonder if there will be a way to phrase long contracts into bullet list of ideas for someone simple minded like me in the near future.
- emodendroket 8y agoIs that possible? Yes, but it's not in their interest to do.
- itchyjunk 8y agoMaybe by some 3rd party then? Maybe an application of all the fancy natural language processing or some other ML. I visit the site, paste the TOS or maybe there is a list of TOS that has been translated and i get a nice gist.
- emodendroket 8y agoI think a more realistic option is Congress imposing a requirement on them, the way the terms of a loan have to be presented in a standard form.
- Sharlin 8y agoOne of the things that GDPR requires is real informed consent, small print hidden inside a thirty-page EULA is not acceptable.
- mtgx 8y agoAnd unlike some of the recent proposals in the U.S., it's generalized to all industries.
- xexers 8y agoYou would need 76 work days per year to keep up with reading all of your TOS http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/youd-need-76-work-days-to-read-all-your-privacy-policies-each-year/ http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/youd-need-76-work-days-t...
- reustle 8y agoAnd that was 6 years ago. I'd imagine it's quite a bit worse now.
- trystero 8y agoTerms of Service; Didn't Read (https://tosdr.org https://tosdr.org) TOSBack, the gitified version (https://tosback.org https://tosback.org) A new version of ToS;DR is also in development: https://github.com/tosdr/phoenix https://github.com/tosdr/phoenix