Submitted by Alliance for Justice on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 11:39
This post was originally published on the Alliance for Justice’s blog and can be found here.
The REAL danger in Instagram's new Terms of Use: forced arbitration
Perhaps you’ve read about the controversy over new “Terms of Use” from the photo-sharing service Instagram, which now is owned by Facebook. Under the terms, if you use Instagram it is free to sell your photos, your likeness and pretty much anything else it knows about you to advertisers – without any further consent on your part, and without compensating you. And if, by some chance, you’re under 18, Instagram assumes that when you click “accept,” at least one parent has read over the terms and agreed to them on your behalf.