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KProfsBlog<p>NY’s Court of Appeals sends a claim subject to a default judgment to arbitration because, although Uber failed to answer the complaint, it did update its terms of service and provided that its arbitration clause applies to pending claims.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contracts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arbitration</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Litigation</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Uber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uber</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/ny-court-of-appeals-sends-claims-of-injured-uber-user-to-arbitration.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawprofessors.typepad.com/cont</span><span class="invisible">ractsprof_blog/2025/04/ny-court-of-appeals-sends-claims-of-injured-uber-user-to-arbitration.html</span></a></p>
Open Terms Archive<p>Join us for the April <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommunityCall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityCall</span></a> today at 09:00 UTC!</p><p>This month we're focusing on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dating</span></a> collection. Marie-Pierre Vidonne will share the reasons behind the collection and why tracking dating app terms and conditions matters.</p><p>Call in on Jitsi: <a href="https://meet.jit.si/OpenTermsArchiveCommunityCall" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meet.jit.si/OpenTermsArchiveCo</span><span class="invisible">mmunityCall</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalCommons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechForGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechForGood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DatingApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DatingApps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transparency</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀 Ah, the "Vibe Coder" role—because clearly, coding is all about good vibes and not, you know, actual coding 🤦♂️. Dive into this labyrinth of recycled internet filler where logging in is the real challenge, and terms of service agreements are our new bedtime stories 📜😴.<br><a href="https://getcoai.com/careers/vibe-coder-frontend-developer-role/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">getcoai.com/careers/vibe-coder</span><span class="invisible">-frontend-developer-role/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VibeCoder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VibeCoder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CodingHumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodingHumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechSatire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechSatire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Ullilust" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ullilust</span></a></span> read the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ToS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToS</span></a> in detail and you'll see it.</p><ul><li>IOW: If you don't <em>pay for hosting</em>, the hoster will <em>monetize your content at their sole discretion</em>!</li></ul><p>Am I the only one who actually reads the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Terms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terms</span></a>?</p>
Vijay Prema<p>There is quite some outrage online over Firefox explicitly (and rather vaguely) outlining their Terms of Use/Privacy policy in a short statement.</p><p>What I want to know is if I do what I thought most FF users also do, which is to disable telemetry, Sync, autocomplete, change to a private search engine, etc, then is whatever statement they make entirely moot, since nothing is sent? Or am I missing something?</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termsofservice</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a></p>
IBBoard<p>"Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox" - OMG! Ubuntu</p><p>I'm hoping that the line "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox." doesn't mean that they're taking free reign to train so-called "AI" on everything I do 🧐</p><p>It looks like it hangs on "as you indicate with your use". So if I don't use the crappy GenAI bullshit then hopefully I'm safe.</p><p><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-introducing-terms-of-use-to-firefox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozill</span><span class="invisible">a-introducing-terms-of-use-to-firefox</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> Is at Risk: 50+ Major <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> Platforms Exposed for Gaps in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TermsofService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsofService</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2024/12/warning-top-tech-platforms-found-with-dangerous-gaps-in-their-terms-of-service.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalinformationworld.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/12/warning-top-tech-platforms-found-with-dangerous-gaps-in-their-terms-of-service.html</span></a></p>
Houston Public Media<p>Effective Friday, users of Elon Musk’s X — formerly known as Twitter — can only file lawsuits against the social media platform in a federal district that includes North Texas, where a federal judge owns stock in Tesla.</p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2024/11/15/506252/want-to-sue-x-youll-have-to-do-it-in-north-texas-according-to-new-terms-of-service/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">houstonpublicmedia.org/article</span><span class="invisible">s/technology/2024/11/15/506252/want-to-sue-x-youll-have-to-do-it-in-north-texas-according-to-new-terms-of-service/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthTexas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthTexas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TarrantCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TarrantCounty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XPlatform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XPlatform</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@nikatjef" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nikatjef</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@bojanland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bojanland</span></a></span> </p><p>this is levels of imaginary "gotcha" that are ridiculous</p><p>if someone posts hate you squash that hate, end of story. you're doing that anyways. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> needs to worry, not the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a></p><p>besides this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newyork</span></a> stop hiding <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> bill is just about posting a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termsofservice</span></a>, a standard of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a>. which <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> already has with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodonservercovenant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonservercovenant</span></a></p><p>so you just need to post the tos</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@nikatjef" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nikatjef</span></a></span> </p><p>not in the least. you just need to post a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termsofservice</span></a> </p><p>all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> wants with the Stop Hiding <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> Act is posting standards of moderation that all the serious servers already agree to in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodonservercovenant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonservercovenant</span></a> </p><p>I guess it will hurt rando sleazebag servers full of bigots. who gives a fuck</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p>
Crypto News<p>Telegram’s Privacy Overhaul: IPs and Phone Numbers of Lawbreakers to Be Shared - After the arrest and subsequent release of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France, his... - <a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/telegrams-privacy-overhaul-ips-and-phone-numbers-of-lawbreakers-to-be-shared/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.bitcoin.com/telegrams-pri</span><span class="invisible">vacy-overhaul-ips-and-phone-numbers-of-lawbreakers-to-be-shared/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/illegalcontent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegalcontent</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/lawenforcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawenforcement</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termsofservice</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/privacypolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacypolicy</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/phonenumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phonenumbers</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ipaddresses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ipaddresses</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/moderators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moderators</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/paveldurov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paveldurov</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>telegram</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲<p>Interesting: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wikimediafoundation</span></a></span> does not engage in the victim-perpetrator role reversal that most organisations put in their <a href="https://toot.teckids.org/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a>.</p><p>Instead of prohibiting use by <a href="https://toot.teckids.org/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a>, they make it a ToS violation for everyone on <a href="https://toot.teckids.org/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> platforms to engage in <a href="https://toot.teckids.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> violations *against* minors.</p><p>It's as (in-)effective as the usual ban on young people, but makes a clear statement of responsibility.</p><p>Further investigation needed, but for now I very much like it!</p><p><a href="https://toot.teckids.org/tags/ResistAdultism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistAdultism</span></a> <a href="https://toot.teckids.org/tags/Teckids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teckids</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>How companies change their Terms of Service for AI. (giftlink)<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/technology/terms-service-ai-training.html?unlocked_article_code=1.200.Uwr3.zSXjUXOF5b4O&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/06/26/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/terms-service-ai-training.html?unlocked_article_code=1.200.Uwr3.zSXjUXOF5b4O&smid=url-share</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termsofservice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a></p>
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers<p>Again, make your voices heard!</p><p>Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work </p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24175416/adobe-overhauls-terms-of-service-update-firefly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/6/10/2417541</span><span class="invisible">6/adobe-overhauls-terms-of-service-update-firefly</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a></p>
Michal Bryxí 🌱<p>Fun fact: It's completely legitimate to close an account because you can't be bothered to keep up to date with <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/TOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TOS</span></a> changes.</p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/Unsubscribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unsubscribe</span></a></p>
Hannu Ikonen, MD<p>2004: TOS preamble. yeah yeah *blows past terms of service, loads Medal of Honor Allied Assault, kills Nazis. *</p><p>2024: TOS Update? Fuck they fucking with now. *breaks out magnifying glass* Yeah that sounds shady. Fucking Nazis. *uninstall*<br> </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/privacymatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacymatters</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ToS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToS</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/termsofservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termsofservice</span></a></p>
Terri K O 🍁<p>Okay, so there's some old caselaw in Canada that says if satellite TV is available for sale you have to pay for it, but if it's some global station you couldn't buy in Canada they don't really care if you just watch it for free. I've been thinking about this in the context of companies selling our stuff to data brokers and AI companies.</p><p>Which is to say, a license for scraping my content for use in AI, marketing, machine learning, and other commercial activities is now available for $500 per word, where words are defined to include not only words within posts, but also those found in alt text and hashtags as well as profile data. Pictures, being worth one thousand words, are thus priced at $500k per image. If you continue to scrape any of my content or use previously scraped content after today, you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. Please contact me if you need special bulk rates. </p><p><a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a></p>
yourautisticlife<p><strong>Those Disclaimers You Add To Your Social Media Profiles Do Exactly Nothing</strong></p><p>These disclaimers may be popular, but they are usually ineffective.</p><p>Sometimes I see someone who will proudly proclaim to the world that they solved some perceived problem with what a social media platform is going by adding some verbiage to their public profile on that platform. For instance, someone on Facebook might add “I do not give Facebook the authorization to do [this and that] with the data in my profile.” That’s cute, and <em>usually</em> ineffective.</p><p>Let me explain.</p><p>Let’s say BigCorp decides to set up a social medial platform. When you create an account there, they ask if you accept the Terms Of Service (TOS). If you accept them, they create an account. What do you think happens if you don’t accept them? They won’t let you create an account. They might tell you that they are sorry, or the button to create the account might be unclickable until you accept the TOS. Now, <em>in theory</em>, you are free to modify the TOS, and make a counter-offer. However, I’ve not seen any site that has a mechanism to do this.</p><p>What I’ve described here is essentially contract negotiation. Someone offers a contract. If you don’t like something in it, you can edit the contract and make a counteroffer. At then end of the day, both you and the other party have to agree to the final contract. Some contracts will contain provisions if you want to change the terms, but even without those provisions, you definitely cannot change a contract unilaterally.</p><p>“But what if BigCorp decides to change the TOS?”</p><p>They have to notify you of the change. A lot of companies will email you saying the TOS is about to change and encouraging you to read the new TOS. I am pretty sure that they don’t have to <em>highlight </em>the changes, unfortunately. They just need to tell you that there is a new TOS, and where you can read it. You have the choice to accept the new TOS, or reject it. I think there are some cases where a rejection won’t result in the termination of your account. However, in a lot of cases if you reject the new TOS, BigCorp can terminate your account.</p><p>“What if I don’t answer?”</p><p>If you don’t give an answer to the company regarding the new TOS, it is assumed that you have accepted it.</p><p>So let’s say that BigCorp has put into their TOS that they reserve the right to feed your data to AI, or the right they give themselves could be something even broader. If BigCorp, for instance, says that they can do anything with the data you post to their site, then feeding it to AI is part of <em>anything</em>. So you see that, and you decide to add to your profile a stipulation that <em>your </em>data cannot be fed to AI. What have you done?</p><p>Nothing. Nothing at all.</p><p>None of what you wrote there binds BigCorp. Why? Because you cannot unilaterally change a contract. Adding your stipulation to your profile is not proper notice of the desired change. You’d have to ask BigCorp if they are happy with this. Did you? No. Then your stipulation is ineffective. Let’s say you want to change the TOS and you want BigCorp’s approval. You’d have to find the proper person to ask for this. Maybe opening a ticket with them might work. At any rate, you have to give them the opportunity to refuse. Let’s suppose that you contact BigCorp and tell them of your plan. Can you assume that if they don’t answer, they’ve accepted the new terms?</p><p>I think you’d be on thin ice making this assumption. I checked the TOS of Facebook (Meta). First, they say that they can change the TOS whenever they want, they will notify you, and your continued usage of the service means that you’ve accepted the new TOS, just as I explained above. Conversely, they want any change you might want to be made to the TOS to be sent to them in writing and <em>signed by them. </em>Since an absence of response is not a signature, you’re out of luck.</p><p>This is partially why I qualified my ineffective with <em>usually. </em>I can see two ways in which your stipulation could work:</p><ol><li>The TOS already allows you to do this. “If you don’t want us to do so-and-so, put it in your profile.” I’ve never encountered a platform with this type of stipulation in their TOS.</li><li>The platform has a mechanism by which they will listen to your proposed changes, and potentially accept them. In theory, Facebook allows it. In practice, good luck getting that signature.</li></ol><p>However, unilaterally adding a stipulation to your profile without also contacting the company does not work. Some people say they’ve fixed something by adding a stipulation to their profile, <em>without </em>either explaining that the TOS already allowed it, or indicating that they contacted the company to modify the TOS, and that the company accepted their offer.</p><p>These people are misleading you.</p><p>These people are spreading dangerous misconceptions.</p><p>(<a href="https://yourautisticlife.substack.com/p/those-disclaimers-you-add-to-your" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Original article on substack.</a>)</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/autisticwriters/" target="_blank">#AutisticWriters</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/contract/" target="_blank">#contract</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/disclaimers/" target="_blank">#disclaimers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/profiles/" target="_blank">#profiles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/socialmedia/" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/termsofservice/" target="_blank">#TermsOfService</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/tos/" target="_blank">#TOS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/tag/yourautisticlife/" target="_blank">#YourAutisticLife</a></p><p><a href="https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/11/22/those-disclaimers-you-add-to-your-social-media-profiles-do-exactly-nothing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/11/22/those-disclaimers-you-add-to-your-social-media-profiles-do-exactly-nothing/</a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ModernMonetaryTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ModernMonetaryTheory</span></a>: why government spending isn’t like household checkbooks <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/26/651948323/episode-866-modern-monetary-theory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/sections/money/2018/09</span><span class="invisible">/26/651948323/episode-866-modern-monetary-theory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Defcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defcon</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/VotingVillage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingVillage</span></a> report shows that hacking <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/VotingMachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingMachines</span></a> takes less time than voting <a href="https://defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DEF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DE</span><span class="invisible">F</span></a> CON 26 voting village report.pdf</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/1yrago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1yrago</span></a> Maintaining <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monopolies</span></a> with the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a>: Microsoft, Oracle and other cloud giants use their <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/TermsOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TermsOfService</span></a> to prevent competition <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/28/other-peoples-computers/#clouded-over" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/09/28/oth</span><span class="invisible">er-peoples-computers/#clouded-over</span></a></p><p>6/</p>
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