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In 2016, a research group set up a fictitious social network website and invited 543 undergraduate university students to a prelaunch evaluation of the social network.

While signing up for the network, the students were presented with a privacy policy, which said (buried in the legalese) that their data would be given to their employers — and to the NSA.

Also, the ToS said that the participants would have to give up their first-born child as payment. Even if they had no children yet, the clause would remain active until 2050. What happened? Ninety-eight percent (that’s 98 percent!) of the participants skipped over the legal jargon, agreed to the ToS, and signed up for the website.

As illustrated in the nearby sidebar, “Nobody reads the terms of service (ToS),” virtually no one actually reads the ToS. Most existing policies would take around an hour for the average Android owner to read!

I strongly suggest that you go over the terms of service and privacy policy when you’re presented with them, or at least search the documents to see what they plan to do with your data. The fact that your data may be shared with a government agency or insurance company (now or in the future) is a real possibility.

Being able to confidently assume that every provider on the Internet follows its privacy laws to the letter would be nice, but you know the truth in your heart: There’s always a bad egg.