Google’s New Privacy Policy: What Does It Mean For You?

by Graham Martin on January 27, 2012 · 0 comments

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In case you haven’t heard, Google is unveiling a new privacy policy on March 1, 2012. This new policy will sweep across (almost) all its services, rather than each site or product having its own privacy policy. This makes sense, but some people are decrying it as a violation of Google’s mantra, “Don’t be evil.” [...]

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Brian Austin Green: My Ex Breached An Oral Contract

January 16, 2012
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Here’s the short version: While working on the newer incarnation of “Beverly Hills 90210,” Brian Austin Green apparently started dating co-star Vanessa Marcil-Giovinazzo. During the course of their courtship, Green lent Marcil approximately $200,000 in $50,000 increments. This was in the year 2000. In November of 2011, Green tried to collect on his loans to no avail. So Brian Austin Green filed a lawsuit against Ms. Marcil-Giovinazzo (PDF). Will he be able to enforce that agreement through the courts?

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Progressive Snapshot Terms and Conditions

January 13, 2012
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Recently Progressive auto insurance has been making a push for customers to join their Snapshot program. For Snapshot, customers plug a device into the computer port in their car and it monitors their driving habits. If Progressive likes your what it sees, you can earn a discount on your insurance of up to 30%. I recently signed up for the service, so I thought I would read through the terms and conditions and share my analysis here.

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Fine Print Friday: SquareTrade Warranty Analysis

January 6, 2012
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Many of us have seen the offers to extend your electronic product’s warranty on eBay or Amazon by purchasing an extended warranty from a company called SquareTrade. SquareTrade offers warranties or warranty extensions for electronics for a claimed 60–70% off. Not bad. But the question is what you are actually buying when you purchase a warranty from SquareTrade. That’s what this week’s Fine Print Friday aims to find out.

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Passive Agreement to Contract

January 3, 2012
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Most contracts involve a signature of some sort—you have to sign your name or provide an electronic signature, provide a personal identification number, or click “Accept”. These are all purposeful acts and constitute active agreement to a contract. But it’s also possible to passively agree to a contract, for which you don’t really need to do anything purposeful.

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Fine Print Friday Greatest Hits: KinderCare Enrollment Agreement

November 18, 2011

Fine Print Friday: KinderCare Learning Centers Enrollment Agreement KinderCare (run by the Knowledge Learning Corporation) is the largest child care provider in the United States, with more than 1,900 early childhood community education centers spread throughout 39 states and the District of Columbia. Since over 200,000 children are enrolled at KinderCare locations throughout the country, I thought [...]

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Force Majeure Forces Vikings to Stay in Metrodome

November 8, 2011
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As Minnesotans grapple with the issue of whether to build a new stadium for the Vikings, a new wrinkle has appeared in the argument, which might force the Vikings to play in the Metrodome for an additional year…based on force majeure.

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Amazon Prime Terms and Conditions

November 4, 2011

Since Amazon just announced that its Prime program will soon begin lending books to its Kindle owners, I thought now would be a good time to examine Amazon Prime’s Terms and Conditions to look for interesting or nasty provisions that you might want to know about.

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