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Ten minutes of your time

The average privacy policy takes around 10 minutes to read. That’s how long it took competitive eater Joey Chestnut to eat 68 hot dogs (a record! A DELICIOUS RECORD). You could also spend ten minutes watching this looped video of Tyrion slapping Joffrey from Game of Thrones over and over.

People simply don’t want to read privacy policies. They’re time consuming. If you were to read every privacy policy you come across in a year, it would take 244 hours.

That’s 20 hours a month. Reading boring legalese. You would need to take 30 days off of work a year! I’m sure your boss won’t mind.

If we look at other things that are time consuming, I’m sure we can cut some of them out of our lives to make room for all this reading.

• We spend about 150 hours a month watching TV. Why not cut some of that out? You could blaze through 900 privacy policies!
• The average American spends 8 hours a month on Facebook. That’s an entire work day, or about 48 privacy policies read.

What else could we do for 20 hours in a month instead of reading privacy policies? You could:

• Listen to that one Gotye song 300 times!
• Watch every Harry Potter movie and still have 14 minutes to spare!
• Drive from Denver to Tijuana!

The Glassboard privacy policy comes in at a rather light-weight 1,058 words. From the study above, the average policy was around 2,500. Then it should take perhaps no more than 8 minutes to read our policy? Surely there isn’t anything more worth 8 minutes of your time…

Posted by Jenny Blumberg