Consumer Campaigners Read T&C Of Their Mobile Phone Apps To Prove a Point (bbc.com)

From a BBC report: Norwegians have spent more than 30 hours reading out terms and conditions from smartphone apps in a campaign by the country's consumer agency. The average Norwegian has 33 apps, the Norwegian Consumer Council says, whose terms and conditions together run longer than the New Testament. To prove the "absurd" length, the council got Norwegians to read each of them out in real time on their website. The reading finished on Wednesday, clocking in at 31:49:11. Some of the world's most popular apps were chosen, including Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Skype, Instagram and Angry Birds. Finn Myrstad from the Norwegian Consumer Council, said: "The current state of terms and conditions for digital services is bordering on the absurd."

Comments

Re:Who is to blame?

[mwvdlee]

This has nothing to do with a litigious society.
T&C's are this way because nobody in their right mind would accept them if they weren't obfuscated beyond comprehension.

Re:Yes, they are stupid

[michelcolman]

Funny how they call it "bordering on the absurd". I think we've gotten well across that border by now.

Re:Yes, they are stupid

[Calydor]

You are missing the point.

These are the average 33 apps the average citizen has installed. You need to know ALL OF THEM as they are not perfectly identical, and you need to somehow remember which T&C is connected to which app.