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Comment by m_eiman | Hacker News Reader

This is a nice tool to see what's actually changed, useful!

Also, I don't understand how it's not a legal requirement to show an easy to understans view of the changes made when a company changes the terms of your agreement with them.

Almost every company sends a "we've updated the terms, yay!" with little to no details on what's actually been changed. A few provide a high-level overview of the supposed purpose of the changes, which I suppose is a start.

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Shameless plug for Changewatch [0], a work-in-progress aimed at making it easier to keep track of changing terms and policies. Feedback very welcome.

[0] https://www.changewatch.co.uk

I'd like one of those for my apartment lease

Almost as if they could be published as markdown files in git repositories, with changes visible as diffs like any other plaintext content? :)

When a company changes their terms of service you can go demand they cancel your membership if you don't agree. But since you don't pay for twitter it's sort of moot.

Is this the case in the U.S.? Got any handy references to specific laws in this regard?

This is basic contract law but you'll likely need to review the specific contract in question to see if they have any clauses you've agreed to about cancellation.

But if you have an agreement that one side unilaterally changes and the other side doesn't agree you probably don't have a contract anymore.

There are some paid users of Twitter, called Twitter Blue [1].

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue

Sure, but if I don't know what they're changing it's hard to know if I want to cancel or not.

Can you demand they return all the personal data they've taken under the old lisence? Because you pay them in data.

The updated contract my bank send me had a nearly identical website to the one above linked, so you could easily see the changes they made.

What bank? I’m shopping around for a new one.

Mine does this also. It's Erste Group https://www.erstegroup.com/. I also like they online banking. And if you register for a free developer account you get even API access for you bank accounts.

That is awesome. Unfortunately I live in the once-great country called America, which just isn’t too advanced in those matters.

It was ebase, but not sure if this helps you as they are European/German.

diffchecker is great! I have it bookmarked (by which I mean I type `di` and then down arrow), and I use it all the time.

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