Children forbidden from using Google

Thursday 24 May 2007

Children forbidden from using Google

I don't know where the legal ramifications of this, but it does re-raise the question of "what point is there in terms and conditions no-one reads..."?

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-24-n26.html


Roger Browne in the forum points out the following passage from the Google Terms of Service (US):

"Your use of Google’s ... web sites ... is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Google ... You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if ... you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google"

Roger comments, “Probably every schoolchild in the developed world is breaking Google’s Terms of Service. How can lawyers be so far out of touch with how the web works?” (Is there a lawyer in the room?)

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