Feb. 27, Robert Howell, Chair of the SMU Dallas Philosophy Department, for a piece questioning the wisdom and necessity of surrendering our privacy to use apps and social media channels that demand we click on boxes to proceed. Published in The Hill: http://bit.ly/2vpkHzd
There is little doubt that privacy clauses and terms of service agreements don’t support the moral burden they are meant to carry. All too often they are designed to provide political cover rather than to generate informed consent.
Not only does no one read them, but even if someone did and had the attention span and intelligence to follow them, it’s doubtful that they would find all the policies hidden in documents several clicks deep.
Interesting fact: If the average American actually read all the policies they encountered, they would lose 76 full workdays in the process. The cost to productivity, if all Americans were so conscientious, would approach $1 trillion. . .
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