Which Company Has the Worst Online Privacy Policy?

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We hear a lot about privacy problems with various online apps and services. But those problems start the minute you sign up and, most likely, ignore the privacy policies. Because if you read them, you’d probably run screaming from your phone or computer.

But no one does that. The convenience, entertainment, and communication we get from all the things we sign up for outweigh most other considerations. And even if you did read every privacy policy you came across, you’d likely just come away punch-drunk with confusion. That’s because, as quantified by the folks at VPNoverview(Opens in a new window), privacy policies across the 50 top tech brands are written at a level most people can’t understand. And in some cases, they'd take so long to read that you’d need an afternoon off to get through them.

Below, you can see what VPNovereview determined about privacy policies, looking in particular at overall readability (the lower the score, the harder to read) as well as the total reading time required. This chart covers only the worst offenders. (Find a fully interactive chart as well as access the data list at VPNoverview(Opens in a new window).)  

Of course, even that chart is hard to construe, so the infographic below breaks out the 20 privacy policies that it found to be the worst, including Disney+, Instagram, and the betting app Coral.

Among the offenses uncovered: Coral says it’ll keep your data for seven years, even if you close your account. Instagram is happy to send third parties all your search and location history. And Disney not only shares data, it also has the most impossible-to-parse privacy policy in the world of tech—even though it's short. (The shortest policy is actually Wayfair's, at 2.2 minutes of reading