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[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the ful…
Over 100 million women track their menstruation using mobile applications (apps). In addition to comparatively unremarkable personal information such as height and weight, these apps collect intimate data like characteristics of vaginal discharge and cervical position. In exchange, many apps claim t …
An analysis of 11,430 Play Store apps found that 14.2% used a privacy policy with contradicting statements about user data collection practices.
Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - The New York Times
The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability.
Across the United States and Europe, notice and consent, the act of clicking that “I have read and agree” to a platform’s terms of service, is the central devic
You just downloaded the hottest new app, and now you have to click through pages of boilerplate text before you can use it. Who has time for all that? Even privacy and security-minded folks often skim through an app’s Terms of Service, and for good reason. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon estimated that it would take a…
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
We scoured Sony Aibo's privacy policy. Here's what we found.
A long line of legal experts say the American Law Institute proposal would make an already huge problem dramatically worse.
A private and influential legal group you’ve never heard of is about to vote on what critics call a fundamental rollback of consumer rights.
Why all this is confusing.
Facebook isn't the only offender.
A 13-year old who tried to read Instagram's terms and conditions: “Are you sure this is necessary? There are like, 100 pages."
Some apps do more harm than good. And “free” apps often come with hidden costs. These tenets hold as true for education apps as they do for those in ...
The agreements were printed on standard A4 wide scroll with standard legal contract font size and type