Terms of Service; Didn't Read

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Short description: Website tracking other websites' legal documents and layperson opinions about such
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
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Websitetosdr.org
LaunchedJune 2012; 12 years ago (2012-06)[1]
Current statusActive
Content license
CC BY-SA 3.0[2]

Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is a community project which aims to analyze and grade the terms of service (TOS) and privacy policies of major Internet sites and services. Each aspect of a TOS or privacy policy is assessed as positive, negative, or neutral. Services are graded from A (best) to E (worst) once a comprehensive list of cases has been reviewed by volunteer curators.[3][4][5] The name of the project is a play on the phrase too long; didn't read.

The project was founded in June 2012 by Hugo Roy, programmer Michiel de Jong and designer Jan-Christoph Borchardt.[6] It was led by Hugo Roy, when he was a law student,[7] from 2012 to 2015. By 2020 the project has been revived again, and the team‘s size has increased significantly in order: Evan Mullen, Justin Back, Guennadi Cortès, Dmitri Pedersen, Inès Rubio, Arlo Barnes, Erik Hering, Moritz Beneke and Tomasz Gębarski.

The project offers a browser extension for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, which shows the grade and a short description of the privacy policy if a website is compatible.[8][9]

History

Several sources of inspiration have been noted for ToS;DR, including Creative Commons' plain English summaries of licenses, EU energy efficiency ratings,[10] and Aza Raskin's Privacy Icons.

References

  1. ↑ "About - Terms of Service; Didn't Read". http://tosdr.org/about.html. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 
  2. ↑ "Terms of Contribution - Terms of Service; Didn't Read". https://docs.tosdr.org/sp/tosdr-org-terms-of-contribution. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 
  3. ↑ Brown, Mark (15 August 2012). "ToS;DR website translates terms of service agreements into English". Wired. Archived from the original on 18 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120818164016/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/15/tos-dr-website. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 
  4. ↑ Blagdon, Jeff (14 August 2012). "ToS;DR reads the terms of service so you don't have to". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/14/3241572/tos-dr-terms-of-service. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 
  5. ↑ Klosowski, Thorin (8 August 2012). "ToS;DR Is a One-Stop Shop for Webapp Terms of Service Ratings". Lifehacker. http://lifehacker.com/5932853/tosdr-is-a-one-stop-shop-for-webapp-terms-of-service-ratings/all. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 
  6. ↑ "About Us -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read". https://tosdr.org/about.html. 
  7. ↑ Luckerson, Victor (10 August 2012). "Facebook, Google, Others Have Privacy Policies Explained on New Website". Time (magazine). http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/new-site-grades-those-pesky-terms-of-service-agreements-you-never-read/. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 
  8. ↑ "Downloads -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read". https://tosdr.org/en/downloads. 
  9. ↑ "Terms of Service; Didn't Read: TOS Summaries - gHacks". 2017-08-20. https://www.ghacks.net/2017/08/20/terms-of-service-didnt-read-tos-summaries/. 
  10. ↑ Finley, Klint (13 August 2012). "Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/putting-an-end-to-the-biggest-lie-on-the-internet/. Retrieved 14 April 2023. 

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