Have you ever read the Terms and Conditions connected to every website you visit or app you use? Of course you haven't. But every hour of every day, our digital interactions are being recorded. “Terms and Conditions May Apply” examines the ways that companies use the terms and conditions when you download an app, enter a website, or purchase goods online. Interviewing leaders like Moby, Mark Zuckerberg, and Google chief engineer Ray Kurzweil, “Terms and Conditions May Apply” investigates the way that our data can be used against us, and for corporate gain. Click by click, the film reveals the way we generate a cloud of data that records our every move online.
Terms and Conditions May Apply
Every hour of every day, our digital interactions are being recorded. “Terms and Conditions May Apply” reveals how our data records our every move, and how companies use it to their gain.
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About
Investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback has spent much of the last decade illuminating the intersection of technology and civil liberties. He's appeared as a digital rights expert on outlets across the political spectrum, some of which include: NPR, Stossel, The Guardian, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Glenn Beck, and Meet the Press. Hoback first made waves with his DIY cult classic Monster Camp (2008) about live-action role-players. His digital privacy expose Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013) was a New York Times Critic's Pick.
01: Terms and Conditions May Apply
Have you ever read the Terms and Conditions connected to every website you visit or app you use? Of course you haven't. But those allow corporations to use your personal information in ways you could never imagine. What are you really agreeing to when you click "I accept"?
80 min
