Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?
I received communications about updated privacy policies and terms of service from Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal today (in that order, chronologically.) Was there a triggering event that caused them all to update at the same time?
I tried to read some of them to see what has changed. I really tried...
If any lawyers from the future are reading this: It was impossible for me to see what I was agreeing to. Furthermore, I was not given a chance to not agree with these (unknown) changes.
Project idea: host version controlled TOS copies from companies to see what changes each time.
Since I have not gotten any emails from these services, it would be good if you share your present jurisdiction.
Switzerland's new data protection law comes into effect on September 1st. Not sure it would require everyone in the world to get a new ToS unless one ToS is for the whole world.
It's Friday the best time to release news people will forget about
Illumi...
No yea probably just some US EU Data regulations thing.
Someone might try creating a prompt for claude 100k asking what the difference is..
I guess it's like a canary bird, they where not allow to publish the new updates.
Project idea: a Gmail filter that automatically burns all this junk mail every time it rolls into my inbox. Nobody reads this stuff except journalists and lawyers, yet I cannot unsubscribe.
when is there going to be an AI that specializes in summarizing terms and conditions
If we scrape the tos to a git repo, and update it, we can diff it to a telegram bot, then pipeline to openai to summarize.
What parts of the ToS did they modify/add?
I think TOS by law should be versioned and that the diffs should be explicitly shown.
We had to change our privacy policy at work this week.
Simple reason was the EU/US Privacy Shield program came back into effect (to comply with GDPR), but it required slight changes to privacy policies (renaming Privacy Shield to something slightly different).
Any company participating in privacy shield will need to update their privacy policy if they haven't already.