Berlin Hack and Tell #13 - Terms of Service; Didn't Read (5 min)

Lightning talk presenting www.tos-dr.info at Berlin's #13 Hack and Tell http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Hack-and-Tell/ at C-Base. This hack won the election!

Transcript

1. Hi, i'm hugo @hugoroyd hugo@fsfe.org
2. The biggest lie on the web
3. “I have read and I accept the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy”
4. Yeah, sure…
5. Not all services are evil.
6. What makes Wikipedia so different from… Facebook ?
7. Wikipedia doesn't use cookies. Facebook keeps your “browser related information” forever
8. Wikipedia : you publish your work under the Creative Commons BY licence Facebook : “You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings.”
9. BUT, Facebook : “you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License).” Instagram you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content not shared publicly ("private") will not be distributed outside the Instagram Services.:
10. Too Long, Didn't Read. TS;DR
11. Terms of Service. Didn't Read. ToS;DR
12. www.tos-dr.info (my localhost: http://demo.hugo.pagekite.me/ )
13. What we need : - Simple JavaScript development - People's opinions on what they think is acceptable / what's not.
14. Expected Launch at Campus Party http://www.campus-party.eu/2012/security.html
15. Release early, release often : Everything's on github.com/Unhosted/ToS-DR Discussion and feedback tosdr@googlegroups.com