Reading all the privacy policies you “agree” to would take a month per year

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How much time do you have to read the privacy policies you encounter?

In The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies, by Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor, the authors calculate that the average Internet user would have to spend one full working month per year in order to skim all the Internet privacy policies she encounters in a year. Mike Masnick reports on Techdirt…

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