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I tried to read all my app privacy policies — it was 1 million words

13 mins | Jun 9, 2022
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Should we abolish them altogether? Most privacy policies are dense, uninformative and leave you in the dark about what happens with your data. But activists are trying to change this. Geoffrey A. Fowler argues that we should use law and technology to give us real privacy choices.

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