The privacy website that the Center on Law and Information Policy helped develop was covered in a Consumerist article.
Usable Privacy is a website launched jointly by Carnegie Mellon University and Fordham Law School to share some of their findings on privacy policy research. Right now, at launch, it has annotated privacy policies available for 193 websites; the researchers plan for that number to go up.
In a press statement, the researchers pointed out that studies show it would take an average user 600 hours to read all the privacy policies for their regularly-viewed sites. That’s 25 24-hour days — a month of your life, or 37.5 days of your life if you took sleeping breaks and nothing else — devoted entirely to learning where you stand… and that’s ridiculous.
