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An API and chrome addon would be very nice. I wouldn't check the site, but I would like warnings when I accessed the registration page of a bad website.
tossos.com was built about 6 months ago. Trying to do similar things as this. It has a Chrome Plugin... check it out.
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Oh, I just assumed "Read the Details" would send me to the ToS! Maybe that should be renamed too :)
I also think it's a poor choice. What do you suggest?
Gravatar: No Right to leave the service. Really?
While checking this out I wondered whether there exists a service for generating ToS. Does that exist?
I understand that the project welcomes contributions, but who has the final say on the rating of a website? Are there any gate-keepers, and who are they?
We would be happy to get th umbrella of a non profit org like Mozilla or the EFF.
Any way, if you don't like our decision: you can get involved. Or you can fork it.
Great concept and smart execution. A suggestion - rather than rating "A" through "E" why not change to the more recognizable (for US audience at least) scale of "A through F" (A/B/C/D/F) which we're all mercilessly trained to recognize through years of school grades? "E" as your worst rating confused me at first glance - could be interpreted as "Excellent"
I attempted a similar feat in 2010 with the now defunct tosgrok.com. This is a very needed service! Edit: Take the domain and put it to good use, I no longer own it and it beats tos;dr!
To be fair, neither is exactly terminology familiar with the average user, who I think they're trying to reach out to here. Both are clever, but known mostly by avid Internet users or nerds.
Companies in the EU, are required to do various things under EU data protection law. E.g. they are legally required to protect your personal data, they can only use the personal data for things you agreed to, they must tell you what data they keep on you if you ask, if they are wrong and you tell them, they are legally required to update the data, there is a national body that is legally empowered to tell a company to stop doing a thing/delete data if they are in breech of data protection law, if they suffer a data breech they are legally required to inform users, etc. All of these things are good for users.
Some companies (e.g. those entirely in the USA) are not bound by these. Some companies (e.g. those entirely in the EU) are bound by this. Some companies (e.g. Facebook) say "If you're in the US or Canada, you're under US law, if you're anyone else, you're under EU law".