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WHAT EXACTLY DO we agree to when we download a smartphone app? To prove the “absurdity” of lengthy terms and conditions, some Norwegians are reading those of 33 apps, from Tinder to iTunes, in a live two-day readathon.
The user terms and conditions of the 33 applications typically found on a Norwegian smartphone amount to 260,000 words, or 900 pages, according to Norway’s consumer protection agency, making them a lengthier read than the New Testament.
To demonstrate the texts’ complexity, the agency has asked consumers to read out the terms and conditions live on its site.
“The aim is to demonstrate that the user terms for internet services, apps or other, are very bad,” head of the agency’s digital services section, Finn Myrstad, told AFP.
They’re too long and unintelligible.
Users were reading the conditions for Twitter, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, Skype, Instagram and Angry Birds among others.
By midday at Wednesday, they had been reading for 27 hours, and were expected to continue for a few more hours.
“Imagine if all the users in the world who have a smartphone were to spend more than 30 hours [reading]. That’s more than four days of work just to read the user terms and conditions on a smartphone,” Myrstad said.
Among the conditions posing the greatest concern were those granting “perpetual” or “irrevocable” licenses to the other party, he said.
“This means, in practice, that the content of your app, whether it’s your photos or your chats, will forever belong to the company. That’s totally unacceptable and violates European and Norwegian law,” Myrstad said.
The Norwegian consumer protection agency is a world leader in confidentiality issues. It recently criticised the French online dating service Happn and popular jogging app Runkeeper for collecting and transmitting users’ data even when the apps are inactive or uninstalled.
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Spike Island for the lot of them, make them live off the land or die, no help warranted or deserved for anyone of this ilk.
Seems an awfully low number, less than 100. There has rarely been a week in then last 10years to go by that there is a case reported whereby you’d assume the convicted person would be on such a list.
That’s what i was thinking, but maybe there are a lot more on the list that just aren’t under special supervision? If so, I’d like to see how many registered address offenders are in each region!
Before offenders are released there is a threat assessment done to see what danger if any they pose in terms of re-offending. Depending on the result the various services will put in place a plan to deal with the offender once they are released. Some offenders may be considered a very low threat and so would have a minimum level of supervision which would consist of notifying a change of address. Others could be considered high risk and so there would be a specific plan put in place to watch them, make them comply with the terms of their release and if they don’t they can be rearrested.
would be very interesting to see how many go on to reoffend and what the actual outcome of this is… surely a fine isn’t enough it should be immediate return to prison/mental institutions with life sentence. it’s all well and good to say rehabilitation is the way to go but if people go on to commit further crimes it clearly hasn’t worked and the person needs to be removed from our society to protect those of us that obey the law and more importantly our children
All of them men I guarantee, I would keep them locked up for life.
While most child abusers are men there are plenty of women who facilitate them. Mid lock up both for life.
Yeah. Men who abuse are paedophiles, women who abuse are temporarily mentally ill
And all of the should be named
John they can’t be named unless the victim chooses to name them and in the case of child abusers the victim is obviously under 18 so I think that there would be a legal difficulty there, unless of course the child was over 18 at the time of conviction.
Gardai aren’t afraid to name and shame thieves and drug dealers, but yet it seems they go out of their way to protect these vile vermin..
Yes, all because they have rights.
Paedophilia is natural and normal for males’
How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10948796/Paedophilia-is-natural-and-normal-for-males.html
Was it just a coincidence that yesterday was #SEXWEEK and today you discuss the sex offenders register? D’oh!
Ah now, it’s just their sexual orientation, can we not fly a pretty flag and vote for their acceptance.
Yes it is being tried to legalise child rape.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10948796/Paedophilia-is-natural-and-normal-for-males.html
“Paedophilia is natural and normal for males’
How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences
I wonder how many are priests
….I wonder how many are parents.
Makes you wonder how safe are your relatives and how many are pedos?
*them
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