Privacy Policies Spread Confusion

A recent USA Today article, "Privacy Isn't Public Knowledge," took an interesting tack: they asked a psychologist and linguistics expert to analyze the privacy polices of ten major websites. His conclusions aren't surprising: these policies mainly confuse people. "If you really don't want people to understand, write it in legalese and have it run on for four or five pages. People will say, 'To hell with it...'" Longest sentence: 174 words.