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How one simple rule change could curb online retailers' snooping on you

  • Written by: Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, UNSW
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I spent last week studying the 26,000 words of privacy terms published by eBay and Amazon, trying to extract some straight answers, and comparing them to the privacy terms of other online marketplaces such as Kogan and Catch (my full summary is here).

There’s bad news and good news.

The bad news is that none of...

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