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Privacy Group Aims to Uncover Lies in Privacy Policies
- InfoWorld, Friday, October 5, 2012 5:15 PM
TOS;DR (which stands for Terms of Service; Didn't Read) is an activitst-driven site that scours the privacy policies of websites, distills the abstruse language into an executive summary of key terms of agreement, and then rates the website from Class A (very good) to Class E (very bad) based on how well the site respects the personal privacy of its users, most of whom agree to the terms of service blindly without reading them. The attributes used for scoring include how the site uses personal info such as email address and other personal identifiers, copyright conditions, use of cookies and data tracking, and complying with government requests for user data.
