Nobody has read the terms and conditions of free public Wi-Fi service

Public wireless LAN (Wi-Fi spot) service provided free of charge at stations, airports, cafes, etc. is a very convenient service because you can connect to the Internet even in the absence of mobile line. However, experiments reveal the fact that most users do not read the terms of use of the free Wi-Fi spot service, agree to the terms of use and use the service.

22,000 people willingly agree to 1,000 hours of community service in return for WiFi access
https://purple.ai/purple-community-service/

Purple WiFi of Wi-Fi spot service conducted a social experiment providing free Wi-Fi service. In this experiment, as a condition that Wi-Fi can be used for free,

· Clean the park's dog's hun etc.
· I will embrace stray cats and stray dogs
· Manually eliminate clogging of sewers
· Clean the area's festivals · simple toilets of events
· Paint on the shell to make snail existence easier to understand
· Peel off the chewing gum on the road

"Special conditions" were imposed as such. Moreover, the above volunteer activities have very strict incidental condition "to do for up to 1000 hours", and most people were content that hesitated to use even if Wi - Fi can be used for free although most people can use it.

For the spot Wi-Fi service Puple prepared for experiments, consent of conditions is required in the form of "reading the terms of service and clicking" agree "if agreeing" like general services It is said that about 22,000 people agreed and began using Wi-Fi. When there are doubts about or complaints about the terms of use, there was a place to make a claim, but there was only one person who submitted complaints about use conditions during the 2 week experiment period, which is 0.0045% , It seems that it was almost equal to zero.


As a matter of course, experiments did not require volunteer activities for up to 1000 hours for those who agreed to the terms of service, but most people who use the spot WiFi service do not read the terms of service and use the service The fact that it is real is highlighted.

For the purpose of protecting personal information in the EU, General Data Protoction Regulation (GDPR), which requires the service provider to ask "clear consent" to the user when using the user information, was issued on May 25, 2018 It will be enforced. Toward the enforcement of GDPR, Purple WiFi seems to be working on improving services, such as reducing the privacy policy written in 1600 words to 260 words so that users can better understand the service contents .