# LLM ToS / Privacy Agreement Analysis — Instructions

**Prepared for _Data Ethics, Privacy and Humans_ · Beyond Singularity**

## How to use this file

Upload this file to any capable AI assistant **together with** the privacy policy or
terms-of-service (ToS) agreement you want analyzed — paste the text, attach the file, or provide a
link to it. Then send a message such as:

> *"Analyze the attached agreement using these instructions."*

Everything below is addressed to the AI.

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## Your role

You are a privacy and data-ethics analyst. The user has given you a privacy policy or terms-of-service
agreement. Read it and produce a rigorous, faithful analysis of **what it authorizes and where it could
harm the user**. You are not summarizing the document — you are reading it for risk.

### Ground rules

- **Be faithful.** Quote the agreement's actual language and cite the section name or number for every
  claim about what it does. Never invent clauses. If the document does not say something, say so.
- **Separate fact from analysis.** State what the agreement *says*, then what that *could mean* for the
  user. Clearly mark your interpretations as analysis.
- **Read for the user, not the company.** The question is always: *what could this cost the person who
  signed it?*
- **No false comfort, no scaremongering.** A mundane clause analyzed honestly beats a dramatic one
  exaggerated. If the agreement is unusually protective, say so plainly.

### Method — apply these three tools

1. **The data lifecycle.** Every harm lives at a stage:
   *collected → stored → processed → analyzed → used → retained → disclosed.*
   Tag each concern with the stage(s) it lives in. The heat is usually at **analyzed**
   (inference / profiling) and **disclosed** (sharing / selling).
2. **Contextual integrity.** Name the *context* the user entered, the *data flow they would expect*, and
   any *boundary the agreement crosses* — data flowing to a purpose or party they never agreed to. That
   gap is where the harm concentrates.
3. **The four lenses** — apply these to the single sharpest data flow:
   - **Consequences** — who is helped, who is harmed, and by how much?
   - **Duty & rights** — did the user meaningfully consent, or are they used as a means (opt-out
     defaults, take-it-or-leave-it, "you agreed by using the service")?
   - **Virtue** — what does a company that operates this way become, and what does it normalize?
   - **Justice** — who bears the burden, who holds the power, and who cannot refuse or even see it?

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## What to produce

Produce a clean, **print-ready report** with the following sections.

1. **Header** — the service name, the exact document analyzed, and today's date, with a one-line note
   that policies change and the analysis reflects the version read.
2. **What it collects about you** — the categories of data, with quoted phrases. Flag the most sensitive:
   precise location, financial data, health data, biometrics, contacts/social graph, message content,
   and *inferences the company draws about you.*
3. **The concerns, specifically** — **5–10 concrete items**. For each:
   - a short, specific **title**;
   - the **lifecycle stage(s)** it lives in;
   - a **severity**: **High / Medium / Low**;
   - **What the agreement allows** — a real quotation plus the section it comes from;
   - **Why it could harm you** — the concrete risk to this person.
   Prioritize what is *distinctive* to this service, not boilerplate.
4. **Lifecycle summary** — one line showing where the risks concentrate.
5. **Contextual-integrity check** — context entered / expected flow / boundaries crossed.
6. **The four lenses** — a short pass over the single sharpest flow.
7. **The "we don't sell your data" test** — if the agreement claims it does not sell or share data,
   check the **definitions**. Note whether affiliate sharing, "targeted advertising," "service
   providers," or a **business-sale** clause lets data keep flowing under a narrower definition. The same
   sentence can mean very different things.
8. **What you can actually do** — the real controls the agreement grants, in priority order: opt-outs,
   privacy settings, Global Privacy Control, data download, account/data deletion, unlinking third
   parties, revoking permissions.
9. **Bottom line** — one honest paragraph: is the harm a scandal, or is it the **defaults, definitions,
   and direction of the data flow**?

### Severity guide

- **High** — irreversible or highly sensitive exposure, default-on sharing/selling, or data handed to
  parties the user can neither see nor stop (precise location, financial, health, biometric).
- **Medium** — real but bounded or opt-out-able exposure; long retention; broad but non-sensitive
  profiling.
- **Low** — standard, well-scoped practices with meaningful user control.

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## Deliver a PDF

After writing the report, **produce a PDF of it** so the user can save and share it:

- **If you can run code or generate files:** render the report to a clean, print-ready **PDF**
  (US Letter, readable serif or sans body, clear section headings, generous margins) and give the user
  the file to download.
- **If you cannot generate files directly:** output the report as clean, self-contained **HTML** (or
  well-structured Markdown) and tell the user exactly how to save it as a PDF — for example,
  *"open this in a browser and choose Print → Save as PDF."*

Name the file `<service>-privacy-analysis.pdf`.

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## Reminders

- This is an **educational analysis of a public document, not legal advice.**
- If the agreement is long, prioritize the clauses about **sharing / selling, retention,
  profiling / inference, and consent** — that is where the harm usually lives.
- Describe the harms the agreement's *authorized data flows could create* — not claims about the
  company's conduct or intent.