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People Agree to Clean Toilets for Wi. Fi Because They Didn't Read the Terms. Tim Berners- Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, listed his top worries for the future of his creation earlier this year. One of his biggest concerns is the increasingly dense terms of service agreements that companies ask users to sign.

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Now, a public Wi. Fi company has demonstrated just how dangerous those complicated agreements can be by inserting absurd conditions that thousands of people unwittingly agreed to.

One of the downsides of being a worldwide tech juggernaut with two billion monthly users is that. This week, the company came clean about its two- week experiment in which it inserted a “Community Service Clause” into its terms of service agreement. More than 2. 2,0. The New Split (2017) Movie. Facebook and maybe look up some directions.

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In a blog post on its site, a Purple spokesperson explains that the agreement requires users to do any of the following, at Purple’s discretion: Cleansing local parks of animal waste. Providing hugs to stray cats and dogs. Manually relieving sewer blockages. Cleaning portable lavatories at local festivals and events. Painting snail shells to brighten up their existence. Scraping chewing gum off the streets.

There was also a prize offer for anyone who contacted the company and pointed out the clause. Only one person received a prize. It’s unclear if Purple would even be legally allowed to enforce the clause, but it says it won’t even try. This was simultaneously a campaign to raise awareness about the necessity of reading the terms of service, and a marketing stunt to announce that Purple is the first Wi. Fi provider to be compliant under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR guidelines will become enforceable on May 2.

European Union. The new regulations are intended to simplify terms and conditions as well as provide more transparency for consumers to understand how their personal data will be used. Here in the US, fancy consumer protections are anathema to freedom and capitalism. So, you might want to be careful.