Terms of Service; Didn't Read


Terms of Service; Didn't Read is a community project which aims to analyze and grade the terms of service 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 to E 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.
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.

History

Several sources of inspiration have been noted for ToS;DR, including Creative Commons' plain English summaries of licenses, EU energy efficiency ratings, and Aza Raskin's Privacy Icons.