- Uh-huh, uh-huh.
These terms govern your use of platform
and the other products features, app, services, technologies
and software we offer except where we expressly state
that the separate terms and not these terms apply.
Yeah. I totally got all that.
A bill with bipartisan support is floating
around Congress that aims to make this terms
of service read easier to understand.
Let's not pretend we all really read through everything
we agree to on our favorite gadgets and websites.
So what can we do to make this contract
more accessible?
Let's chat a little TLDR.
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Okay. First up, there's just something kind of
cute about politicians naming their bills
the Term-of-service Labeling Design
and Readability Act also called the TLDR Act
which of course has become an abbreviation
for too-long-didn't-read-on-really-long-posts-or-replies,
it's cheeky, I dig it
but truly these agreements are often extremely long
full of confusing legal language,
and sometimes are purposely obtuse
regarding user's rights or obligations.
A brief example.
Recently, I tried to look up any specific information
on VPN use mentioned in my ISPs terms of service.
And there is a confusing dance
of terms regarding different internet technologies
all to arrive at some general legal shrug.
You probably won't find specific mentions of technologies
because these companies want general protections
that can be interpreted to their benefit.
So I didn't find the exact phrase VPN
but I did find several sections pointing
to practices and behavior.
It's up the user to protect their own data.
It's up to the user to maintain equipment
used on the network.
The ISP has no liability for anything that might happen.
And the user can't use any products
or services that might be deemed illegal
or which violates some very broadly stated
terms of services.
Did you catch what I did there?
I had to give you a bit
of a cliff notes on what multiple paragraphs
of legal language were used to accomplish.
I gave you a TLDR.
Well both sides of the political aisles
in Congress are trying to make this a law,
because these terms are often unnecessarily complex,
people don't always understand what rights
they might be signing away.
Like giving up the right to sue a company,
and you're forced into some kind of arbitration instead,
or just being notified of future changes
to the terms of service
after agreeing to the original terms.
Congress is proposing a more nutritional label style
of laying out these terms.
This would be enforced
by the FTC and states attorneys general
to make sure companies properly disclose these terms
and uphold their end of the agreement.
Within these new nutritional labels,
companies would also have to describe to users
how their data is being used, stored and shared
with third parties.
Small businesses would initially be exempt
but the threshold for a civil suit
would start at 1000 affected consumers.
It's gonna be interesting to see how small business
is defined as in a web economy
a tiny team of developers can create services
for a large group of users.
They're solid by partisan support for the bill
and I think a lot of consumers would appreciate
a better breakdown of how these terms are spelled out.
We'll have to keep an eye on this one
and see if it gets to a vote and gets signed into law.
But we want to hear from you, is it too small
a step in the right direction?
Will it help improve consumer interactions,
does it go far enough?
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