iPad giveaway prank proves you shouldn’t ignore Terms and Conditions

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Just agree -  everyone's doing it.
Just agree - everyone's doing it.
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Despite the fact that they frequently contain things we should be concerned about, it’s rare that we pay much (if any) attention to what we’re agreeing to when we hit “Accept” on the Terms & Conditions section of some new app we’ve downloaded.

However, a fun viral video by YouTube prankster Jena Kingsley shows why we should read a bit more carefully, with members of the public unknowingly “agreeing” to do everything from adopting a child (who’s standing right there!) to giving up an organ — all in the name of trying to win an iPad.

Check it out below:

Kingsley isn’t the first person to try and draw our attention to reading the Terms & Conditions of whatever it is that we sign up for. Recently, American cartoonist Robert Sikyorak illustrated the iTunes T&Cs document using different art styles from comic history.

Will we learn anything from this? I’d like to think “yes,” but — realistically — until app developers really do start asking us to hand over kidneys or the shirt off our backs, we’re probably going to continue behaving like we do already, right?

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