Most people have seen the "Accept the EULA' or "Accept our new terms agreement", and just clicked agree for the sake of installing new software or creating a new account for Twitter. However, not many people have read the actual license they are agreeing to, so these are some scary user agreements. ENJOY!
1. By uploading any photos to Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, you are giving them full usage rights to your photo. This means that they are allowed to take that photo of you, add "6 ways I learned to lose weight fast!", and turn it into an advertisement, all without your consent, because you agreed they had full rights to that photo. Snapchat also owns any photo you send, so even after they're "gone", Snapchat will store that selfie (or other photos) for who knows how many years on their servers, and have the right to give that photo to anyone.
2. You don't really own your phone. You may think that you paid good money for your phone, but by using your phone, you have agreed to have your phone shut down remotely by the manufacturer for any number of reasons should they see fit. If Samsung or Apple wants to, they can lock you out of your phone, because you agreed to it by using the device!
3. You cannot use iTunes to build nuclear weapons. At least, that's what you've agreed to when installing an update to iTunes. "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons." So next time you try to make nuclear missiles with your iTunes music software, beware, you've voided the agreement!
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I have been quite unaware of everything I am agreeing to when I accept the "Terms and Conditions" button. This is definitely somewhat disturbing. Thanks for informing me of some of these risks (I think?).
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