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~ Mark Rasch, founder and former head of the U.S. Justice Department's computer crimes unit, says that the increasing trend toward lengthy, tiny-font policy "agreements" that users must click on before they can access a Web site are generating the need for more legal oversight. "Increasingly, companies have been putting some pretty nasty things into their clickwrap agreements -- such as that they can collect and sell your detailed personal information or install software that will capture your every keystroke? This is not legal boilerplate, the kind that everybody assents to when renting a car or buying a ticket to a ball game. It affects the privacy, security, and operability of all of the information you access online." Rasch says what's desperately needed is a law robot -- "a browser-based automaton that could be adjusted to match your tolerance for legal mumbo-jumbo? Once you establish privacy settings, your browser would transfer personal data (after prompting you) only to sites that conform with your privacy requirements." Rasch says such technology would go a long way toward eradicating such online nuisances as porn spam and spyware. "We will never fully automate the reading of contracts or agreements online. Nor would we want to -- after all, Internet lawyers need jobs, too. But by automating the vetting of clickwraps or implied agreements we could make everybody sleep a little easier."
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