Google and Facebook get sued over their ‘incomprehensible’ privacy policies

[Guest Brad Reed]

Have you ever tried to really read through Google and Facebook's privacy policies? If you have then you might find that your eyes start to glaze over after just a few paragraphs. Now ZDNet reports that French consumers group UFC-Que Choisir has filed a lawsuit against Google, 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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