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03-27-2014, 10:48 PM
Google and Facebook get sued over their ‘incomprehensible’ privacy policies
http://c2.bgr.com/2013/01/zuckerbergthanks.jpg?w=597 (http://bgr.com/2014/03/27/google-facebook-privacy-lawsuit/)Have you ever tried to really read through Google and Facebook's privacy policies (http://bgr.com/2014/01/16/google-privacy-policy-criticism/)? If you have then you might find that your eyes start to glaze over after just a few paragraphs. **w ZDNet reports (http://www.zdnet.com/google-facebook-twitter-face-lawsuit-over-illegible-incomprehensible-privacy-policies-7000027780/) that French consumers group*UFC-Que Choisir has filed a lawsuit against Google (http://bgr.com/tag/google), Facebook (http://bgr.com/tag/facebook) and Twitter for having privacy policies that are "illegible" and "incomprehensible" to the average user and that should be rewritten to make more sense.*UFC-Que Choisir has slammed all three companies in the past for writing opaque policies that give the companies a lot of leeway for potentially violating their users' privacy.
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http://c2.bgr.com/2013/01/zuckerbergthanks.jpg?w=597 (http://bgr.com/2014/03/27/google-facebook-privacy-lawsuit/)Have you ever tried to really read through Google and Facebook's privacy policies (http://bgr.com/2014/01/16/google-privacy-policy-criticism/)? If you have then you might find that your eyes start to glaze over after just a few paragraphs. **w ZDNet reports (http://www.zdnet.com/google-facebook-twitter-face-lawsuit-over-illegible-incomprehensible-privacy-policies-7000027780/) that French consumers group*UFC-Que Choisir has filed a lawsuit against Google (http://bgr.com/tag/google), Facebook (http://bgr.com/tag/facebook) and Twitter for having privacy policies that are "illegible" and "incomprehensible" to the average user and that should be rewritten to make more sense.*UFC-Que Choisir has slammed all three companies in the past for writing opaque policies that give the companies a lot of leeway for potentially violating their users' privacy.
Continue reading... (http://bgr.com/2014/03/27/google-facebook-privacy-lawsuit/)
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