Terms of use? No, did not read
" I have read and agree to the terms of the user agreement ... " - this is almost always wrong. No one reads them. Most often, the only reason for the existence of all these agreements is to protect the service from any claims from users, shift all responsibility to them and leave the company maximum freedom to manage user data in their own interests.
The young site " Terms of Service; did not Read " (ToS; DR) is trying to return to user agreements their original meaning and make them understandable to everyone. The project team analyzes the user agreements of many large Internet services and assigns them a class from A to E, depending on how user-friendly and loyal the user service rules are. Class A ensures that the company respects the rights of users and will not abuse them with data. Class E, on the contrary, signals that the conditions have very serious shortcomings and are composed exclusively in favor of the service.
In addition, the key points of the agreement are translated from the legal language to the human language and are provided with icons that characterize them as positive, negative, dangerous, or informative.
The inspiration for ToS; DR was inspired by Aza Raskin’s privacy icons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s project to track TOSBack user agreements.
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The ToS; DR website was created as part of the Unhosted initiative, the purpose of which is to free the Internet from the monopoly of large corporations on user data. Instead of conventional web applications entirely dependent on the central server, it is proposed to create much more independent and autonomous, which will store user data not in their own data centers, but on servers fully controlled by the user, using the RemoteStorage.js library.
Now developers are focused on integrating their site with TOSBack and creating an API that will allow using project data in browser extensions. By installing such an extension, any person will be able to instantly evaluate the user agreement of the site on which he is going to register, and make a sensible decision: can you trust this site or better stay away.
The team hopes that over time, using crowdsourcing will be able to conduct an examination of most major Internet services. So far, the discussion of user agreements goes on in the Google group . The service will be presented to the general public at the Campus Party conference, which will be held in Berlin from 21 to 26 August.
The young site " Terms of Service; did not Read " (ToS; DR) is trying to return to user agreements their original meaning and make them understandable to everyone. The project team analyzes the user agreements of many large Internet services and assigns them a class from A to E, depending on how user-friendly and loyal the user service rules are. Class A ensures that the company respects the rights of users and will not abuse them with data. Class E, on the contrary, signals that the conditions have very serious shortcomings and are composed exclusively in favor of the service.
In addition, the key points of the agreement are translated from the legal language to the human language and are provided with icons that characterize them as positive, negative, dangerous, or informative.
The inspiration for ToS; DR was inspired by Aza Raskin’s privacy icons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s project to track TOSBack user agreements.
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The ToS; DR website was created as part of the Unhosted initiative, the purpose of which is to free the Internet from the monopoly of large corporations on user data. Instead of conventional web applications entirely dependent on the central server, it is proposed to create much more independent and autonomous, which will store user data not in their own data centers, but on servers fully controlled by the user, using the RemoteStorage.js library.
Now developers are focused on integrating their site with TOSBack and creating an API that will allow using project data in browser extensions. By installing such an extension, any person will be able to instantly evaluate the user agreement of the site on which he is going to register, and make a sensible decision: can you trust this site or better stay away.
The team hopes that over time, using crowdsourcing will be able to conduct an examination of most major Internet services. So far, the discussion of user agreements goes on in the Google group . The service will be presented to the general public at the Campus Party conference, which will be held in Berlin from 21 to 26 August.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/149780/
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