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Title: Goodbye, firstborn children: This study shows how wordy terms of service hurt users Post by: HCK on July 15, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Goodbye, firstborn children: This study shows how wordy terms of service hurt users
<article> <section class="page"> <p>It’s no secret that few people pay much attention to reading and understanding all the terms of service and privacy policies you come across online. Now a new study shows just how ridiculous and anti-consumer the lengthy agreements really are.</p><p>The new paper, titled “The Biggest Lie on the Internet (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757465),” created a fake social networking site with suggestive and outrageous clauses in its Terms of Service (ToS). But surprise! Nearly everyone joined anyway, as first reported by Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/nobody-reads-tos-agreements-even-ones-that-demand-first-born-as-payment/).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3094855/internet/goodbye-firstborn-children-this-study-shows-how-wordy-terms-of-service-hurt-users.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Goodbye, firstborn children: This study shows how wordy terms of service hurt users (http://www.macworld.com/article/3094855/internet/goodbye-firstborn-children-this-study-shows-how-wordy-terms-of-service-hurt-users.html#tk.rss_all) |