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T&C's and Privacy Policies should have short summary of major points.

Submitted on Sunday 28th January 2018

Rejected on Friday 2nd February 2018

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

T&C's and Privacy Policies should have short summary of major points.

Petition Details

Companies write 100s of pages of Terms and Conditions for every product/service they provide. Consumers don't read them. 7% read them. e.g. Amazon's Kindle T's & C's are 73,198 words long. Consumers don't know what they are accepting. A short summary of the main factors should be made clear.

Additional Information

If it was your job to read privacy policies for 8 hours per day, it would take you 76 work days to complete the task. Nationalized, that's 53.8 BILLION HOURS of time required to read privacy policies. The researchers came up with hypothetical national cost for all of those lost work hours: $781 billion. 6 Mar 2012 (techland.time.com)


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

This petition seems to be calling on companies, not the UK Government or Parliament, to take action.

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