Every ‘free’ app on your phone is, on average, sending data about you to between 5 and 10 different companies you have never heard of, and the legal disclosures that authorize this are buried in privacy policies that, for the worst offenders, run longer than entire novellas — Meta’s runs over 19,000 words, and some telecom policies exceed 100,000
You downloaded the app this morning. It was free. You tapped accept on the terms without reading them. You always do. Everyone does. What you almost certainly didn’t realise is that within minutes of installing it, that app started sending data about you — your location, your device ID, your behaviour, your contacts — to
