Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)

Directed by

Cullen Hoback

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 201 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explains how companies and governments collect and use personal information from online activity. It warns viewers about the dangers of agreeing to long privacy policies without reading them.

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What happens

Terms and Conditions May Apply is a 2013 documentary film that addresses how corporations and the government utilize the information that users provide when agreeing to browse a website, install an application, or purchase goods online. In the film, director/narrator Cullen Hoback discusses the language employed in user-service agreements and how online service providers collect and use users' and customers' information. The film criticizes companies such as Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn for having poorly worded and misguiding privacy policies/terms of service, which use user-unfriendly language in long documents and allows the companies to collect user information and legally provide it to third-parties. The film aims to warn people about the risks of clicking "I Agree" after scrolling through pages of uninviting text. Mark Zuckerberg appears in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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