Annual Terms and Coditions awareness day

[Ansgar Koene]

Hi all,
based on my research regarding ethics and citizen rights online I am floating the idea of proposing an annual awareness day for people to consider the Terms and Conditions they have signed up to on various app, websites and other IT related items. The main reason for proposing this is to contract the habituation to 'click-sign' online terms and conditions contract without paying even the slightest attention to them. The other is that such a day might act as a push to encourage companies to improve the clarity, length and readability of their Terms and Conditions. Good example why this is necessary was recently given by this article in the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/i-read-all-the-small-print-on-the-internet
Who think this would be a good idea?

Also, as part of my research at U. Nottingham I am currently running an online survey to ask people which conditions they would like to have met before they would want to consent to having their social media data used for research purposes (see link below). Does anyone have any good suggestions how I can best reach an audience that represent a proper cross-section of the internet using population?
Mechanical Turk won't be an option since for the purposes of this survey Turkers would not be a representative population sample. Neither is the student population.
Any ideas?
Survey link: https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/conditions-for-consent-to-analyse-social-media-data

Thanks,
Ansgar

Dr. Ansgar Koene
CaSMa - Citizen centric approaches to social media analysis
Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute
University of Nottingham
https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/
http://www.horizon.ac.uk/



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