UK Technology Committee Urges Social Media to Simplify Privacy Terms

© Sputnik / Alexander Kryazhev / Go to the mediabankAccording to the report, over 1.5 billion people around the world use social media, and participate in platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
According to the report, over 1.5 billion people around the world use social media, and participate in platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. - Sputnik International
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Social media giants need to simplify their user policy to clarify how they collect personal data, the UK Science and Technology Committee warned in a report Friday.

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MOSCOW, November 28 (Sputnik) — Social media companies need to simplify their terms and conditions contracts for users to clarify how they use personal data, the UK Science and Technology Committee warned in a report Friday.

“Terms and conditions contracts are simply too long and complex for any reasonable person to make any real sense of,” the report published on the UK parliament’s website stated.

“As a mechanism for showing that users have provided informed consent, so that organizations can process incredibly personal data, terms and conditions; contracts are simply not fit for the purpose,” the report added.

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Based on the findings, the report urges companies to effectively communicate how they intend to use the personal data they collect, calling on the UK government to develop a set of information standards, requiring websites and apps to concisely and clearly explain to users how their data is used.

“Let’s face it, most people click yes to terms and conditions contracts without reading them, because they are often laughably long and written in the kind of legalese you need a law degree from the US to understand,” the committee’s chair Andrew Miller, was quoted as saying in a statement published on the website.

User data is of enormous value to both commercial and governmental online resources in the United Kingdom, the report stated, adding that terms of service contracts are written with a marked bias toward protecting online organizations from legal action by their users, instead of providing coherent and informed user consent.

According to the report, over 1.5 billion people around the world use social media, and participate in platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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