Before You Sign That Privacy Statement, Know What It's Really Saying
by Deborah S. Bosley, Ph.D., Founder and Principal, The Plain Language Group LLC
Apr 16, 2020
3 minutes
Everyone cares about privacy. But few of us actually read privacy policies. Why? Because most companies create dense, overly complex and incredibly long statements.
This isn't new; Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for privacy issues for years. Facebook's privacy policy takes about 18 minutes to read. It's no wonder we've been trained not to bother, but we should.
The purpose of a privacy policy is to tell you how and with whom your personal and private data will be shared. Because almost all data is shared beyond the actual website or company with which you're doing business, at the heart of the privacy problem
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