“I agree to the terms and conditions”: (How) do users read privacy policies online? An eye-tracking experiment
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Up to 97% of users accept terms and conditions without fully understanding them.
“Research shows that up to 97% of users accept terms and conditions without fully understanding them 32,42,43 .”
From Privacy in consumer wearable technologies: a living systematic analysis of data policies across leading manufacturers (2025) · cites this paper as [43]
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Status quo bias in decision making
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Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias
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Defaults, Framing and Privacy: Why Opting In-Opting Out1
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On site: to opt-in or opt-out?: it depends on the question
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SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice
Singhal, M., Ling, C., Paudel, P., Thota, P., Kumarswamy, N., Stringhini, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2023) · 2023 IEEE 8th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) · doi:10.1109/eurosp57164.2023.00056 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Steinfeld, N.
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-02
- Volume
- 55
- Pages
- 992-1000
- ISSN
- 0747-5632
- Cited by
- 180
- References
- 6
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Center for the Study of New Media, Society and Politics at Ariel University
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