[美洲] PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth

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To read, or not to read... the terms and conditions: PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth
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" t6 B5 b: i4 @& h* PWhich? slams websites for making users agree to small print up to 36,275 words long
: \+ u- M& M; H$ D6 M4 IWatchdog lists the worst culprits and calls for changes
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! L( m: P( G1 h5 H$ mBy Tom Gardner5.39.217.76/ e/ @( J+ n7 v9 P# P

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  r! ^9 u  T! y! }" \9 R' }$ q) rtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWhich? said it was 'unreasonable' to expect people to wade through pages of legal jargon, then tick a box to say they have read and understood the small print.
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3 ?* Q- Z; c9 |- x' ZIt has produced a list of the worse offending sites - where T&Cs, as they are known, are longer than some of Shakespeare's classics.
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5 {; y2 i% e- m! Q; `# z5.39.217.76Tough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic Hamlet6 B/ E5 B% n. V; C2 q+ W7 O! o

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A spokesman for Which? said: ‘We think it’s unreasonable to ask people to read prohibitively long T&Cs before they agree to use a service.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* K4 J" `" `$ X1 o
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‘A slicker solution is needed, where websites flag up the most important parts of their T&Cs to consumers.’5.39.217.76$ ~! ]! A1 @# T7 G2 v
Amazon, Google, Facebook and Windows also have enough words to fill a small novel yet expect them to be read as part of their contract with the customer.
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The worst culprit is PayPal, a secure payment system for internet users, which has a terms and conditions box containing a total of 36,275 words.5.39.217.76  z2 t0 c: t. {" _# d

# k5 B8 |& `) Y/ ^1 b& A9 Y公仔箱論壇It includes around 9,200 words on its privacy policy and the rest split on its shipping services policy, billing agreement and terms of acceptable use.# d, y4 ]; R5 ?' H

$ f7 C, K/ G7 d; k5.39.217.76Hamlet has 30,066 words including the famous To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy and the moving ‘goodnight sweet prince’ speech at the end." w" h. V- b. j  i3 W& U
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& h8 U6 M4 a) j7 {  _Feat of endurance: Reading every word of PayPal's terms and conditions would require considerable stamina
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0 M1 {" m; }" |9 U  L8 ]4 B5.39.217.76Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet
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7 c! C% a1 o/ J: T0 @* \公仔箱論壇Weighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 words
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A TOUGH READ: NUMBER OF WORDS IN T&CS5.39.217.762 @! i+ _( ]7 w7 Q( b7 ~" O
Paypal: 36,275 公仔箱論壇' c, R3 Z: V" K" Z, B# ~+ p# m
Hamlet: 30,066
9 J, N$ q3 a2 EApple iTunes: 19,972 % C# S0 @) c- h# ^4 H( A
Macbeth: 18,110
# c' O! Q# X8 P7 H. @" w+ s+ A8 y公仔箱論壇Windows Live: 14,714
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Amazon Kindle: 7,115
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Twitter: 4,445
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Apple’s iTunes has a total of 19,972 words telling users what they can and can’t do while Macbeth runs to 18,100 in comparison, said Which?
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7 b! d% U6 @/ L: R( ]tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbFor those who also want to use Apple iCloud then there are another 10,724 words to read through.
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And before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.
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9 P/ o$ v1 ?8 r+ b$ q5.39.217.76This includes Google which has 10,640 words in a new single policy and terms box which covers all its services including Chrome and Walet.5.39.217.76  W# n& B5 K! P. f( J+ @

' y6 U/ l7 g5 T2 G# A( h: XWhile using the Amazon website means reading 5,212 words of T&C, using the firm’s Kindle product requires ticking a box to say you’ve read 7,115 words of policy.
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