Digital services get to compel you to agree to their Terms of Service.

· Bits and Bobs 6/23/25
  • Digital services get to compel you to agree to their Terms of Service.
    • It's a binary choice: agree to their terms or don't get the service at all.
    • The ToS reserves a ton of their rights for what they can do with your data.
    • But you don't get to assert your rights over the data you bring to the service.
    • It's your data, but the ToS makes it effectively their data.
    • One small change that would have a massive impact: make it so that any ToS that reserves rights for the service over the user's data is also mutual and automatically reserved for the user, too.