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Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks'

posted by fyngyrz on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:38PM   
from the that-really-zucks dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for fyngyrz

Senator Kennedy of Louisiana confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the transparency of the social media company's policies on Tuesday.

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"I'm going to suggest you go home and rewrite it, and tell your $1,200 dollar and[sic] hour lawyer...you want it written in English not Swahili, so the average American user can understand," Kennedy said.

Source:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/senator-to-zuckerberg-your-user-agreement-sucks.html

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Original Submission

• It's a problem because of the Digital Signature Ac It's a problem because of the Digital Signature Ac (Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:29PM (#665588) Homepage Journal

  -t

  When it was introduced the propeller-hat community got very very excited.

  The law that actually got passed resulted in "I Agree" checkboxes being legally enforceable.

  That's what you get for not having a clue about current legislation.

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• Re:It's a problem because of the Digital Signature (Score: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:55PM

  by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:55PM (#665609) Journal

  Simple, just get a 13 year old to install everything on your computer for you. They will understand better than most adults and as an added benefit they can't be held liable for a contract.

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