How many times do you simply click "I agree" to a bunch of legal-ese without having read a single word? How often do you check the box which says you've read the full Terms of Service for a product download or a website sign-up, when you've merely scrolled past it all to the bottom of the page?
I am looking for a team or an individual who can help create a web-wide standard for the trustworthiness of every site's legal terms: a Verisign-like badge which can be displayed on a site, showing how invasive or benign its terms of use are. The system should have some level of gradation : green, yellow and red, for example-- making it clear to the end-user what to expect and how best to proceed.
The goal of this system is to put the power back in the hands of the user-- without the pressure to change their terms of service, website and software producers will have no incentive to change their current strategy of providing lengthy and complex legal agreements.
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Posted by Thomson Reuters, New York
Win $25,000 in cash and prizes! Thomson Reuters is challenging developers in an international competition to create innovative mobile apps for financial professionals.
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Posted by Nova Spivack, San Francisco
Would you like to make a contribution of historical proportions? Here's your chance. This challenge is to create technology that can literally help to reshape our world, liberate hundreds of millions of people from repression, and bring down evil regimes in the process. There are few... read more
Judging: Will be performed by Nova Spivack.
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"I support this project; If you have knowledge in programming please look at this, also; if you hate TOS's and you're worried about what you're agreeing to, consider donating to anyone that comes up with a good system for this."
"Actually the "accept TOS" game is a farce, since normally TOS is long and hard to read. Maybe some "traffic light system" red-yello-green of crowdsourced lawyers would work."
