Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:14PM
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> But I think e.g. landlords have a reasonable expectation that renters do read their contracts. I know I read my lease—that seems like a normal, reasonable thing to do.
I also imagine it was much shorter than a typical software ToS/EULA.
> Reading a software ToS or Privacy Policy is, by contrast, exceptionally abnormal.
Part of the cause here is path dependence - we've been conditioned to ignore EULAs in the pre/early-Internet era, back when software walked and quacked like a product, not a service.
I also imagine it was much shorter than a typical software ToS/EULA.
> Reading a software ToS or Privacy Policy is, by contrast, exceptionally abnormal.
Part of the cause here is path dependence - we've been conditioned to ignore EULAs in the pre/early-Internet era, back when software walked and quacked like a product, not a service.