Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sadly Over-hyped

As Good As It Gets

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is a brilliantly researched excellent feature !Your privacy has been compromised to the very core the moment you created an account with any of the following...facebook, google, gmail, twitter, iphone etc... What does one feel about hacking ? What does one feel about being spied on ?Would you say the same things when whatever you say is being recorded ?Whoever you talk to, including your private and personal conversations over the phone are being recorded and heard by another unknown human being who can use every word you say to condemn you anytime !Well boys n girls... welcome to the world of cookies and the internet !Choose ur words carefully...its not free after-ALL !!!

Excellent review of the political and social changes in *digital* privacy for the past 13 years since 9/11. The director goes into great detail on how Websites have constantly shifted toward acquiring and disseminating more information as time has gone on since 9/11 and how this information can, and is, being revealed to the government on a regular basis. What is more disturbing is how much we thought that either a password or a privacy change on Facebook to "Friends Only" doesn't actually protect us, totally, from government or corporate dissemination of who we are. The director also points out the substantial moral problem of when we are allowed to forget our secrets and to let them lie in our past. 5 years? 10 years? 3 months? When are we entitled to have those embarrassing pictures taken at age 14 taken off the Internet search engine results (from, say, Google)? When it's been 10 years? What about adults? Do they deserve to have privacy of past-acts (good conduct or misconduct)? This is a matter not currently under substantial discussion in the Congress and the director points out that Congress is the only legislature in the US that can adequately make laws on these subjects.Again, worth seeing once so that you learn what exactly those "terms" are that you agreed to.

This is an important and frightening film, about how Google, Amzaon, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkdin - and IMDb? - harvest our personal information and onsell it to the highest bidder, or to the government. How we don't read that wodge of text in capitals comprising "Terms and conditions" before we click "Accept" - nobody could, it would take a month per year for everything we sign. But even when that text is brief and written in plain English, it gives those corporations unprecedented power over our personal information - including the right to change the rules without telling us, to increase their power without limit and without asking again, and to keep it forever, even after we have "deleted" it. The film is entertaining, including how a seven year old boy was interrogated about something he had texted; how an Irishman on holiday in the US never got into the country but spent days in confinement instead, because he had used "destroy America" as a figure of speech in a tweet; how people planning a zombie parade during the Royal Wedding were arrested based on the social media planning; and how a TV crime writer was raided based on his Google searches. I saw this a few days after "We Steal Secrets: the story of Wikileaks". It is the better film, letting the facts speak for themselves more.And now I'm getting paranoid about what will happen to me for writing this....

I simply love this film!I saw it last night at the Aruba International Film Festival. I'm Leo's friend (short guy) that told you to go to "Jimmies Bar" ha-ha. But holy crap! This movie was really interesting! I find you have balls for actually visiting the Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg at his own house. There's nobody crazy enough that would do that type of thing. It's still scary to know that the government takes our private information as it were nothing. I mean we all have our rights, right? So why not stand up!? We should all stand up for ourselves. Keep up the good work, bro(& crew).Cheers!-Amin Croes