{"id":98540,"date":"2016-07-20T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98540"},"modified":"2016-07-20T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:03:57","slug":"98-of-people-offered-up-their-first-born-because-they-didnt-read-this-sites-terms-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/98540-98-of-people-offered-up-their-first-born-because-they-didnt-read-this-sites-terms-of-service","title":{"rendered":"98% of people offered up their first-born because they didn’t read this site’s Terms of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent study <\/strong><\/a>confirms that pretty much no one actually reads through their online product’s Terms and Conditions.<\/p>\n

The majority of the 543 university students involved in the analysis didn’t read the terms of service before signing up for a fake social networking site called “NameDrop”.<\/p>\n

If they did, they would have discovered that the terms of service required them to give up their first-born child.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper addresses \u2018the biggest lie on the internet\u2019 with an empirical investigation of privacy policy (PP) and terms of service (TOS) policy reading behavior.<\/p>\n

Results reveal 74% skipped PP, selecting \u2018quick join.\u2019 For readers, average PP reading time was 73 seconds, and average TOS reading time was 51 seconds.<\/p>\n

Based on average adult reading speed (250-280 words per minute), PP should have taken 30 minutes to read, TOS 16 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Do you read the Terms of Service? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is how over 500 students signed away their first-born children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[20378,20376,15725,20374],"class_list":["post-98540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-accept","tag-read","tag-social-media","tag-terms-and-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98598,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98540\/revisions\/98598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}