| Aim | To find out quickly what the TOS of an app provider say and why this can be important |
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| Duration | - |
| Number of participants | any |
| Age | 10+ |
| Difficulty | medium |
| Conditions | The activity needs enough time for the research and implementation phases. Suitable for groups |
| Material | Smartphone, website https://tosdr.org/ |
| Preparation - |
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| Description All apps, social networks and programmes have terms of services (TOS) which hardly anybody ever reads. Some of them are written in such a complex way that it doesn’t even make sense to read them. Still, they have an influence on the rights of the person agreeing to them. The website https://tosdr.org/ can help to “translate” the TOS of services.
If you want to carry out the exercise as a group activity, each group can evaluate a specific service, such as a platform the respective participants use, according to their own user behavior: If I agree to the TOS, is the app authorised to use and pass on my contents and pictures? If I send someone a message or picture, is the transmission encrypted? What commitments do I enter into? |
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| Source | OIAT/Saferinternet.at |
| Tags | small print, TOS |