How bad is the situation for privacy notices? The National Science Foundation just used part of its largest grant program, a Frontier award of well over $1 million, to fund a team of researchers looking to fix them. And, to be clear, “We try to look at society’s biggest challenges and the things that really matter,” said Lisa-Joy Zgorski, a spokesperson for the National Science Foundation. In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, we talk with Norman Sadeh at Carnegie-Mellon University, the team lead for the project in question, “Towards effective Web privacy notice and choice: a multi-disciplinary perspective,” and how he hopes to "take these policies in their ugliness and extract something meaningful out of them.”
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