Impact on personal data protection

Achievements

  • In September 2021, press articles objectified their investigations with data from Open Terms Archive following the collaboration of Swiss provider ProtonMail with law enforcement.

Related collections

Platform Governance Archive

Major global social media services
Services
20
Documents
80
Language
English
Jurisdiction
European Union
Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of BremenAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)

Dating

Online dating
Services
25
Documents
65
Language
English
Jurisdictions
European Union, Switzerland
HestiaLabs

Open Terms Archive publicly records the terms of services of online services in different languages and countries several times a day, increasing their readability and highlighting their changes. It is designed as a tool to steer platform governance towards increased accountability, improved legislation and stronger regulatory compliance. Read more on our impact model.