Your Firstborn Child for Free WiFi?  A “Herod clause” in the Fine Print!

Rachel Feltman reports here in the Washington Post and Tom Fox-Brewster of the Guardian has more details here about an experiment a security firm conducted in London.  F-Secure was making a point:  Six Londoners clicked right through the terms requiring them to give up their firstborn child for “the duration of eternity” for free Wi-Fi. 

The fine print contains many drastic, rights-reducing provisions that consumers gloss over and yet courts uphold every day.  This one though is surely void against public policy, but many others should also be….