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

[Wireless News]

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/drZTkOCzC13rh7u.buzrKg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/zuckerbergthanks.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/google-facebook-sued-over-incomprehensible-privacy-policies-194859145.html)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. “If the companies are getting greedy when it comes to data, they’re on a diet when it comes to taking responsibility,” the



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