Open Terms Archive

Website/link: https://opentermsarchive.org

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Actor type: Civil society (think tank, NGO, unaffiliated researcher, non-profit or charity)

Subject tag: Advertising | Algorithmic systems | Child safety | Data Access | Disinformation and misinformation | Governance | Privacy and data protection | Terrorism and violent extremism

Region: Global

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.
It addresses a critical gap in the ability of activists, journalists, researchers, lawmakers and regulators to analyse and influence the rules of online services. To do so, it provides free and open source software to publicly record these terms in different languages and countries several times a day, increasing their readability and highlighting their changes. The Open Terms Archive team establishes partnerships to track and analyse the terms of many industries, in several languages and jurisdictions.
Open Terms Archive is a decentralised and federated ecosystem, meaning that anyone can start tracking documents on their own and make them available to others, no matter the target domain. All public collections and tracked documents that match quality criteria are federated and made easily discoverable.
Open Terms Archive is a certified Digital Public Good.