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Man accused of reading Terms and conditions on a website


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Graham Morgan, 59, has admitted in court to reading the terms and conditions for his supermarket app.  He asked the court to take into consideration thirty other sets of 'Ts & Cs' ranging from his BT online webpage to checking out the CeeBeebees webpage terms 'before letting my granddaughter near them'.  He admits his actions are unreasonable.


Website and app Terms and Conditions, AKA Ts & Cs, are reams of electronic pages of meaningless legal mumbo jumbo not intended to be read by anyone.  Notionally they exist to allow every website a user glances past the right to extract any data about the user with a view to sell said data and/or collaborate in the ransacking of their bank accounts.  There are usually standard clauses to claim exclusive rights to first-born children and blanket statements absolving them of any responsibility for anything, anywhere, ever.


Before sentencing, Morgan stated that most of the Ts & Cs he had read included a minimum of five virtual pages stating 'blah, blah, blah...' in blocks of twenty-eight 'blahs' per paragraph and the final sentence, just above the statement insisting that the reader pushes the 'I agree' button, reads 'We reserve the right to add in anything we think of here before, during or after the pressing of the "I Agree" button, and failure to push said button will result in your hard drive being reformatted.'


Sentencing has been delayed while lawyers representing Morgan pour over the sentencing Ts & Cs.  It's expected they'll just push the 'I Agree' button before they get a quarter-way through.

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