Earlier this year, Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler attempted to read the privacy policies of the apps he regularly uses on his phone. The task, it turned out, was practically impossible because of the unending legalese. According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, it would take the average internet user 244 hours to read every privacy policy of every website they visited in a year. So it is no surprise that nearly 60 percent of Americans reported feeling confusion about…

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