Be careful before clicking

Warning you can allow online companies to install spyware on your computer or use your personal images for commercial purposes.

How many times have you clicked " I Accept ", or " I agree / accept " with the terms and conditions of use on a Web site without reading the previous contract?

Now Dr. Sal Humphreys - an expert of Internet communities from Queensland University of Technology (Australia) - warns you can allow online companies to install spyware onto your computer or use the Your personal image on commercial purposes. Dr. Humphreys said many people are not well aware of their privacy and intellectual property rights when clicking "harass" on terms that accept Accept without reading it.

" With blind acceptance of conditions and regulations - which are recognized as legal contracts, users can agree with things that they normally cannot accept ," she said. " Users tend to ignore contracts they have" accepted "until something happens beyond expectation ."

Humphreys stressed that the world is changing from a society regulated by governments to a society controlled by profit-driven companies.

Take, for example, the multiplayer online game World of Warcraft (WoW) that has millions of players around the world. 'WoW contract states that developers can access users' computers and are allowed to install spyware on their hard drives to track what they do,' she said. Spyware claims, must be installed in order for the game to work, help prevent fraud and black market selling money in the game but there is a penetration of privacy that the player probably agreed to awake '.

Humphreys said many online publishers encourage users to create their content, but contracts claim that any content created by users in the game or posted on the company's Web site becomes publisher properties.

"In the current terms and conditions of the social network Facebook claims that all user content posted on the Web site may be used by the company for purposes including advertising, and may be Keep in storage even after the user has deleted from their profile, "she said.

Dr Humphreys said online companies often are not responsible for their treatment of users.

" The contract of Second Life social network says that users own IP rights to create their own world but they can be kicked out of the game for no reason and if they own too many virtual properties Worth a lot of real money, they can lose everything , "she said.