23 stories tagged terms-of-service, newest first.
48 points by MrBuddyCasino | 30 comments
An X post arguing that in an AI-integrated future, being banned by AI providers for TOS violations would leave people economically cut off, and that open source is the safeguard.
9 points by abdallahamjid | 4 comments
ClipJury research article reporting that 105 of 175 AI tools changed terms affecting monetization of free output between June and October 2026.
214 points by DeepLogin | 60 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting legal experts' view that Meta's revised terms of service still grant broad permissions to use scraped content for advertising and business products.
429 points by 0in | 155 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
16 points by Kayvanian | 5 comments
Blog post by therun.gg's operator discussing speedrun.com's new terms of use removing Creative Commons licensing and how it affects third-party leaderboards.
436 points by DeepLogin | 284 comments
Consumer Rights Wiki article on Disney+'s January 2025 subscriber agreement change allowing ads in all tiers, including ad-free plans.
448 points by boramalper | 358 comments
Personal blog post explaining the author's regret about moving projects to Codeberg after its new terms restricting which projects are welcome.
922 points by mips_avatar | 456 comments
Blog post criticizing a Claude Fable 5 model card passage saying Claude silently limits help with frontier LLM development requests, without telling users.
![Screenshot of letsencrypt.org: Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/6/9/23f98053-92b7-4d53-af3d-b5a55042c924.jpg)
402 points by piskov | 333 comments
PDF diff of the Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement version 1.7 (June 4, 2026), the legal terms governing use of ISRG-issued SSL/TLS certificates.
454 points by lpcvoid | 167 comments
Microsoft's Copilot Terms of Use page, effective October 24, 2025, with a summary of changes including new terms for Copilot Actions, Labs, and Shopping.
![Screenshot of cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov: US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/3/9/84bd82da-2a89-4fed-96f6-ac47c8fa11c9.jpg)
515 points by dryadin | 398 comments
Ninth Circuit unpublished memorandum in Ireland-Gordy v. Tile and Life360 holding that terms of service updated by email notice can bind users through continued use.
566 points by theahura | 690 comments
Claude Code documentation page listing legal agreements, compliance certifications, and security information, including terms governing subscription authentication use.
409 points by MilnerRoute | 222 comments
The New Stack article reporting Adafruit's criticism that Arduino's new rules are incompatible with open source, and Arduino's defense of the changes.
325 points by felineflock | 104 comments
Blog post on Molecularist asking whether Qualcomm's acquisition and Arduino's updated terms and conditions have ended Arduino as an open commons.
379 points by ChuckMcM | 191 comments
LinkedIn post by Adafruit criticizing Qualcomm-owned Arduino's rewritten Terms of Service and Privacy Policy as a break from open-hardware values.
![Screenshot of ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov: Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/30/f30ee8f2-107d-4fb1-9272-6fa4e53b4165.jpg)
361 points by coloneltcb | 251 comments
A Second Circuit Court of Appeals opinion (case 23-6181) holding that Google's terms of service do not eliminate a user's Fourth Amendment privacy rights.
521 points by fortran77 | 275 comments
WDW News Today article on Disney seeking dismissal of a Raglan Road wrongful death lawsuit, arguing the victim's Disney+ terms of service required arbitration.
418 points by wanderingmind | 214 comments
A tweet urging creatives under NDA to cancel Adobe subscriptions over Adobe's updated terms of service allowing access to user content.
718 points by osmanbaskaya | 341 comments
Engadget article reporting that 23andMe changed its terms of service after a data breach to push customers into arbitration and block lawsuits unless they opt out in writing.
545 points by agluszak | 140 comments
GamerBraves news article reporting that Unity quietly deleted its GitHub repository tracking Terms of Service changes and updated its license.
407 points by alabhyajindal | 128 comments
Mozilla Foundation campaign page asking Microsoft to clarify whether its new Service Agreement allows using personal data from its products to train AI.
1395 points by isodev | 438 comments
Zoom's Terms of Service page, effective July 27, 2023, governing use of Zoom services, including provisions on user content and arbitration.
399 points by Cyclical | 398 comments
Imgur's Community Rules page outlining content guidelines for the image-sharing platform, updated to ban NSFW content.