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Title    Agree to the EULA to Learn About Deforestation
Date    Saturday February 22 2014, @12:32PM
Author    mattie_p
Topic   
from the print-that-out-please-want-it-on-paper dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/22/1023235

bob_super writes:

"After reading an article[fr] (English language version) presenting a new Google initiative to map deforestation, I encountered a surprise when globalforestwatch.org opened with a Terms Of Service page! Not a small two-line 'we're in beta' terms of service page, a full multi-page lawyer-dream EULA. And when clicked on agree, I got a pop-up asking me to agree again!

Since we all know that all information has to be proven 100% correct and safe before being published on the web, have you noticed EULAs in other no-login sites? Why are Google's lawyers getting in the way when it's about important scientific data?"

Links
  1. "article" - http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2014/02/21/les-forets-mondiales-sous-l-il-de-google_4370944_3244.html
  2. "English language version" - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fplanete%2Farticle%2F2014%2F02%2F21%2Fles-forets-mondiales-sous-l-il-de-google_4370944_3244.html
  3. "globalforestwatch.org" - http://www.globalforestwatch.org/
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