How Users Give Away The Farm By Not Reading the ToS [Infographic]
When agreeing to the terms of service, users grant many sites the right to do whatever they want with their content without any notice.
The terms of service is probably one of the least-read parts of any website. Users routinely skip over it while registering, or when prompted to read it again later. But just how many are skipping this important document entirely and relinquishing control of their content in the process?
Using data from a study of 30 social and fan sites, the GVU Center at Georgia Tech found that ToS are unreasonably long and complicated. Facebook’s ToS has 4,477 words, Flickr’s has 5,763 and LinkedIn’s has a massive 7,294.
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