One Day's Privacy Small Print Would Take Families 10 Days to Read
The white paper found 257 documents with 1,184,835 words for one model family, including 83% that allow marketing or data sharing.
- A Web3 Foundation study found that privacy documents for one ordinary day of digital activity would take 10.4 working days to read, exceeding the total word count of William Shakespeare's complete works.
- Researchers identified 1,195 privacy documents containing more than 5.38 million words for the white paper 'Everyday Surveillance: What One Ordinary Day May Reveal About You,' mapping six model households.
- Across 143 institutions, 83% of documents describe data use for marketing and 80% for combining information, while 71% allow sharing with commercial partners and at least 24% permit training artificial intelligence systems.
- Laboon, vice president of technical operations at Web3 Foundation, noted the striking amount of data generated by ordinary digital activity, describing the volume of disclosures as a form of concealment.
- Gavin Wood, founder of Web3 Foundation, explained that the team performed the task consumers are told to do by reading privacy policies, which are disclosed publicly but function as concealment.
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