Monday, December 1, 2014

MPs say they need 'serious discussion' with social networks over users' data

Social networks should simplify their terms and conditions, to ensure that their users fully understand how their personal data will be collected and used, MPs have concluded.

A report by the Commons science and technology committee calls for the British government to work with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on new guidelines for how social media companies should explain their data collection policies to uses.

The MPs criticised the “opaque, literary style” of many social networks’ terms and conditions documents, suggesting that they “are drafted for use in American court rooms” rather than for non-lawyers to understand, and thus give their informed consent to however that company plans to use their personal data.


read full article at Guardian

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