I can't tell if you were being serious. Assuming you were, then 1400 words, presented as a wall of text, is an anathema to the short attention spans of many users. In addition, that 1400 words is a subset of around 5400 words for the Terms and use of software/services.

We can debate whether people should be educating themselves about such terms but my point is (still) that it's impractical in the long term as we want to use more services/devices. The only way out of this that makes sense to me is that people begin owning their data and (digital 'exhaust'). I'm working on FOSS tools to enable this (see my profile).

Yes, I was serious. It's a $80 dollar device that you wear a significant amount of time. In that context, 15 or 20 minutes spent understanding what it does is not onerous.

Note the comment I made earlier in another part of the thread where I said I pretty much refuse to use device+service combos like the one here.

In that case, I'm curious whether you use a smart phone (iOS/Android) and whether you've read all those documents too. That's typically a much higher-value product.

Also, recall that I said that a certain level of knowledge/understanding is required to even understand the basics.

> "I pretty much refuse to use device+service combos like the one here."

Could you elaborate why? Onerous T&Cs? No control of data? Don't care about such analytics?

My problem with how things are developing is that we end up in a world where either you resign yourself to the fact that you're constantly being data-mined or you become a digital hermit. There's very little that allows you to engage and retain control (without becoming a sysadmin).

I have an Android tablet, but not a smart phone. I'm not hugely careful with what I stick on there, but I think I've only shared my contacts with stuff like Hangouts and Skype (where the explicit purpose of the app is to contact people). I increasingly leave my cell phone sitting at home (mostly because I don't care about being reachable, not because I'm worried about network location pings). I take it with me if I'm going to be away for more than a couple hours.

As far as not using analytics, it's a combination of not caring (as an example, I run (maybe I should say jog?) regularly but don't time myself) and distaste over the way the data is managed.

The fact that people's views of their privacy rights are subjective means that a lot more than 1400 words would be necessary to cover every single action that at least one human perceives to be a privacy violation.