Wednesday, May 2, 2012

6 Things to Know Before You Accept Another Privacy Policy

You know you’re supposed to, but if you’re like most people, you probably have never read the user agreement, privacy policy or service terms when signing up for an online service, including a social network. And why would you? As we reported last week, the documents are dense (Facebook's took, on average, 2.5 hours to read, according to researchers), and people have remarkably low comprehension levels when asked questions immediately following their perusal.

Still, there’s a lot of stuff in those dense documents you should know about, so we asked experts what red flags you should be looking for if you only have time to skim the service terms before clicking accept.

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