After reading through 150 privacy policies of the internet’s largest tech and media platforms, one (obviously very determined) journalist found that Facebook’ privacy policy is more challenging to read than Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. Currently, the data collection economy is essentially based on consumers consenting to complicated legal documents that the majority of Americans can’t understand. A useful privacy policy isn’t impossible. At its core, all consumers need to know is how exposed they are when using the internet. It shouldn’t be as difficult as cosmological physics.
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