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azeem: 12% of the economic output would be lost if we all read privacy policies http://t.co/0Ml19IgD - thank god we don't

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Mark Gimein: Via @alexismadrigal The Real Cost of Privacy: To read every "privacy policy" we see would take 76 days a year or $781B http://t.co/sntvA07a

Ezra Klein: Who has time to read Internet privacy policies?

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