The article discusses the significant increase in the length and complexity of privacy policies over the last 25 years, with a study revealing a quadrupling in length and higher difficulty in comprehension. It cites ongoing concerns about data collection practices, including increased use of location data, implicit data collection, and vague privacy notification practices. The article highlights a case involving Zoom, whose terms of service prompted backlash from users after revealing it could utilize collected data for AI training, thus illustrating users' growing frustrations regarding data privacy.
Over the past quarter-century, privacy policies-the lengthy, dense legal language you quickly scroll through before mindlessly hitting 'agree'-have grown both longer and denser.
Zoom was the subject of sharp criticism... when an article from the technology news site Stack Diary highlighted a section of... terms of service that said it could use data collected from its users to train artificial intelligence.
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