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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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