Terms and Conditions May Apply

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Terms And Conditions May Apply | Hyrax Films

"This documentary should be mandatory viewing for everyone who uses the internet."
John Ford, Slug Magazine

Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013) - IMDb

A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it ... if anything.

Terms and Conditions May Apply Documentary: A Must See Horror Film | Mark Weinstein

Hoback's film takes us down a rabbit hole to try and answer the question: Is privacy dead? In the process, he exposes us to a massive civil liberties nightmare. As Hoback pointed out in a recent article, Silicon Valley "knows" that anonymity isn't profitable. This has driven Internet monoliths such as Google and Facebook to turn the Internet into a cog that turns us into a real-time surveillance state and George Orwell into an historian and prognosticator instead of an acclaimed fiction writer.

How did we as a culture consent to such behavior? According to the film, you need look no farther than those pesky terms and conditions you never read that come with every app you download and every website you visit. By clicking the "I Agree" button, you blindly assent to hand over your life and interests to billion-dollar corporations to do with it what they may. Oftentimes, this means selling your information to the highest bidder or sharing it with your government. Most of us never even realize it. Our government does, Republicans and Democrats alike, but does nothing about it. After all, this data is a treasure trove they can access by simply reaching into the data candy bowl collected by Facebook, Google, and company.

Terms and Conditions May Apply - Movie Trailers - iTunes

We saw this documentary on Participant Media but it may be available elsewhere. If you want to know what you've agreed to, its well worth watching.