Is Your Disclosure A Real Disclosure?

This portion from the link below might give you pause:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129147-c,internetlegalissues/article.html

IDGNS: There is something about the way legal agreements are evolving that offends common sense. I don't think people read most disclosure agreements, and I don't blame them. If you just want to download a plugin or play a CD, is it reasonable to expect someone to read a three-page boilerplate legal agreement?

Majoras: That's a tough issue that you're raising, and an important issue. One of the things that has always been the case, though, is that buried disclosures have never worked and have never been adequate. So if you are burying an important disclosure that's going to make a difference to a consumer, then there's a real question about whether that's a true disclosure.

This is also something that we worry about with some of the spyware legislation that's been proposed. People say that as long as it's disclosed to folks that, "this is what's going to happen," then that may be good enough. We actually had a case in which buried in the EULA was this disclosure that said, "We reserve the right to take over your computer."

But we said there, "No, that is not good enough." That is the type of disclosure that would need to be front and center for the consumer that they really couldn't get past.
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