According to the Centre for Internet Safety (CIS), websites “are actively tracking customers with long-term use of an average of 10 tracking cookies per site,” CSO reports, noting, CIS has “ranked sites by the compliance of their privacy policies with soon-to-be-tougher Australian privacy laws.” According to the report, the best privacy policy of those reviewed belonged to the Victorian government’s website; the worst came from a U.S.-based photo-sharing site, and the second- and third-worst policies came from ISPs iiNet and TPG. “While brevity is good with privacy policies because it may mean less verbiage and legalese, 313 words in iiNet's case and 269 in TPG's case didn't allow them to convey anything meaningful whatsoever to their customers,” the CIS review notes.
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