The one document that just about everyone dreads reading, and most don’t, has to be the Terms of Service (TOS) that we have to agree to before using their services. Even when we get notification of changes chances are most of us ignore them. We shouldn’t but we do because they have to be some of the most boring shit we could ever not want to read.
To make things easier for us though the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created the Terms-Of-Service Tracker. At TOSback.org you can see a real-time feed of TOS agreements that have been changed as well as updates to more than three dozen policies from the some of the most popular services on the Internet.
“Some changes to terms of service are good for consumers, and some are bad,” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann. “But Internet users are increasingly trusting websites with everything from their photos to their ‘friends lists’ to their calendar — and sometimes even their medical information. TOSBack will help consumers flag changes in the websites they use every day and trust with their personal information.”
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Currently TOSback.org is following the policies of these companies
Amazon Apple Automattic Blizzard Craigslist Data.gov DoubleClick EBay Electronic Frontier Foundation Facebook Flickr GoDaddy Google MySpace Organizing For America Recovery.gov Twitter Whitehouse.gov Yahoo! YouTube
You can also grab their RSS (or use this RSS link)
