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February 23, 2020 12:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WFQ2xv-x8SU/signing-up-with-amazon-wal-mart-or-uber-forfeits-your-right-to-sue-them
Signing Up With Amazon, Wal-Mart, Or Uber Forfeits Your Right To Sue Them
Long-time Slashdot reader DogDude shared this article from CNN:Tucked into the sign-up process for many popular e-commerce sites and apps are dense terms-of-service agreements that legal experts say are changing the nature of consumer transactions, creating a veil of secrecy around how these companies function. The small print in these documents requires all signatories to agree to binding arbitration and to clauses that ban class actions. Just by signing up for these services, consumers give up their rights to sue companies like Amazon, Uber and Walmart before a jury of their peers, agreeing instead to undertake a private process overseen by a paid arbitrator... The proliferation of apps and e-commerce means that such clauses now cover millions of everyday commercial transactions, from buying groceries to getting to the airport... Consumers are "losing access to the courthouse," said Imre Szalai, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WFQ2xv-x8SU/signing-up-with-amazon-wal-mart-or-uber-forfeits-your-right-to-sue-them
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