Terms of Service; Didn't Read
Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is a community project which aims to analyze and grade the terms of service (TOS) and privacy policies of major Internet sites and services. Each aspect of a TOS or privacy policy is assessed as positive, negative, or neutral. Services are graded from A (best) to E (worst) once a comprehensive list of cases has been reviewed by volunteer curators. The name of the project is a play on the phrase too long; didn't read.
A screenshot showing example ratings from ToS;DR | |
| URL | tosdr |
|---|---|
| Launched | June 2012 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The project was founded in June 2012 by Hugo Roy, programmer Michiel de Jong and designer Jan-Christoph Borchardt. It was led by Hugo Roy, when he was a law student, from 2012 to 2015. By 2020 the project has been revived again, and the team‘s size has increased significantly in order: Evan Mullen, Justin Back, Guennadi Cortès, Dmitri Pedersen, Inès Rubio, Arlo Barnes, Erik Hering, Moritz Beneke and Tomasz Gębarski.
The project offers a browser extension for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, which shows the grade and a short description of the privacy policy if a website is compatible.