Tag: Data privacy

Illustration of a people looking inside a screen to see the "gears" that make up a digital Terms of Use contract.

Do you trust me now?

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Decades of research show people believe and trust things that are easy to understand, but the average social media contract is 6,712 words in dense legalese. Terry researchers wanted to know if platforms can boost consumer trust by using plain language summaries in their terms of use contracts.

Illustration of a man being blocked from an internet article featuring gardening content by an internet browsing window featuring ominous eyes and tentacles

Is privacy the price for free internet? Not necessarily. 

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Is privacy have to be the price of free internet content? Maybe not, according to a recent study by Terry College marketing researcher Pengyuan Wang and George Washington University marketing researcher Li Jiang.