ClericaDaily Footprint
What to do
Map the apps and sites you actually use in a normal day, hour by hour.
- Scroll through the hours in the timeline. When you reach a time you use something online, click Add entry.
- Type a service name or any website you want (e.g. gmail, netflix, your own URL) and press Enter.
- The handwritten sentence is yours too—click it to edit, cycle the wording, or type something completely different 😉
- Press Enter again to add another service at that hour, or Tab to skip to the next. Use Randomize for an example day, then Share summary when yours feels honest.
Why it matters (research)
“I agree to the terms and conditions” is known as “the biggest lie on the internet.”
People often click agree before accessing, reading, or understanding digital service policies. The length of terms of service and privacy policies may be contributing to that—and every entry on your timeline is another policy bundle you likely never read.
Researchers assessed 70 digital services—social media, popular apps, ISPs, and banks—and counted the full policy text, including linked pages. Overall, the privacy policies and terms of service present individuals with a considerable amount to read.
57 of 70 services require an hour or more to read both policies. 34 require two hours or more. Twitter's policies would take 6.7 hours; Airbnb's 4.9.
Offer too much to read and people will be overwhelmed. Provide too little, and important details will likely be hidden. Nissenbaum calls this the “transparency paradox.” As individuals use multiple services, there are multiple policies to read—a difficult scenario to navigate successfully.
Jonathan A. Obar, A Policy Length Analysis for 70 Digital Services, The Biggest Lie on the Internet project (2019).
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on an average day