Why you should delete the McDonald's App

You can’t sue them for getting scalded with hot coffee anymore.
https://parade.com/food/mcdonalds-app-terms-and-conditions

I teach IT law to IT students, and one of my subjects is terms and conditions. I always ask if anyone reads them. No one does. And then we go from there …

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Uninstalled.

why did you install it in the first place?

For loyalty points.

For me, it was the free fries :joy:

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These kinds of terms and conditions are omnipresent, in anything that has T&C’s, such as product warrantees, apps, bank deposits, and even in sweepstakes and on line contests. Essentially, once these terms of adhesion became common, the right to a civil trial or joining a class action is being eliminated. I think a part of it is corporate self defense due to the crazy multimillion dollar suits for trivial things (coffee heat, soup ads, etc.).

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They are contracts of adhesion and they are ubiquitous.

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I shed no tears for the corporate giant.

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