Signing contracts without reading them can be a dangerous business (how do you think I ended up paying for William Shatner’s hairpiece?) and the iPhone contract is a particularly bulky one.  Apple have rolled the AT&T agreement, iTunes and iPhone software, Google Maps and YouTube usage together with user consent that an e mail from the company “will satisfy any legal communication requirements” into one great big document, and




Wired took it to the Electronic Frontier Foundation where staff attorney Fred von Lohmann was pretty critical:

“I think there’s no chance whatsoever that a layperson would understand it and I doubt they could get through it. I think most lawyers wouldn’t understand it either”

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