Hacker News Reader

Terms of Service; Didn't Read (https://tosdr.org)

TOSBack, the gitified version (https://tosback.org)

A new version of ToS;DR is also in development: https://github.com/tosdr/phoenix

One of the things that GDPR requires is real informed consent, small print hidden inside a thirty-page EULA is not acceptable.

And unlike some of the recent proposals in the U.S., it's generalized to all industries.

You would need 76 work days per year to keep up with reading all of your TOS

http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/youd-need-76-work-days-t...

And that was 6 years ago. I'd imagine it's quite a bit worse now.

Is that possible? Yes, but it's not in their interest to do.

Maybe by some 3rd party then? Maybe an application of all the fancy natural language processing or some other ML. I visit the site, paste the TOS or maybe there is a list of TOS that has been translated and i get a nice gist.

I think a more realistic option is Congress imposing a requirement on them, the way the terms of a loan have to be presented in a standard form.