Professor Eric Goldman was recently quoted in an article on Slate about End User License Agreements. The article, written by Seth Stevenson, examines privacy policies and other legally-binding agreements many technology users agree to without taking the time to read.
From the article:
Eric Goldman, co-director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University Law School, has drafted hundreds of online terms of service agreements. He says that he—“like most sane people”—doesn’t read everything he agrees to. (Want proof that no one else does, either? One company placed a clause deep in the text of its EULA offering $1,000 to the first person who noticed. It took five months and 3,000 “I agrees” before anybody claimed the prize.) But Goldman feels there’s no easy fix to this absurd situation.
