{"id":5214,"date":"2018-03-24T21:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2018-03-24T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:18:33","slug":"privacy-policies-are-bogus-and-reading-all-of-them-would-take-about-30-days-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/24\/privacy-policies-are-bogus-and-reading-all-of-them-would-take-about-30-days-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy policies are bogus and reading all of them would take about 30 days per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The reality is that the incentives of a privacy policy are to not use it to keep your info private. In fact, the incentives are to make a privacy policy as permissive as possible. Because the only time you get in trouble is not if you fail to protect someone&#8217;s privacy&#8230; but if you violate your own privacy policy. So companies have the incentive to write a privacy policy that is as permissive to the company as possible, so that they&#8217;re less likely to avoid violating their own privacy policy.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\neven when people do read them, almost no one understands them.<br \/>\n<strong>In fact, a new report notes that if you actually bothered to read all the privacy policies you encounter on a daily basis, it would take you 250 working hours per year &#8212; or about 30 workdays.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120420\/10560418585\/to-read-all-privacy-policies-you-encounter-youd-need-to-take-month-off-work-each-year.shtml\">To Read All Of The Privacy Policies You Encounter, You&#8217;d Need To Take A Month Off From Work Each Year | Techdirt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is that the incentives of a privacy policy are to not use it to keep your info private. In fact, the incentives are to make a privacy policy as permissive as possible. Because the only time you get in trouble is not if you fail to protect someone&#8217;s privacy&#8230; but if you violate your own privacy policy. So companies have the incentive to write a privacy policy that is as permissive to the company as possible, so that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/24\/privacy-policies-are-bogus-and-reading-all-of-them-would-take-about-30-days-per-year\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,37,42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-crime","category-privacy","category-social-media","category-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}