A study by the Web3 Foundation has revealed the immense time commitment required to read privacy policies associated with everyday digital activities.

• It can take up to 10 workdays to read all privacy policies linked to one ordinary digital day.
• The study examined six model households in the United Kingdom and United States, identifying over 5.38 million words across 1,195 documents.
• Researchers found that data collected can be combined, inferred, shared, and used to train AI, with many organizations stating no fixed data retention period.