Researchers Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick and Ashkan Soltani
Privacy researchers (L to R) Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick and Ashkan Soltani

Three students in the School of Information, Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, and Ashkan Soltani, spent a year analyzing data collection and sharing practices of the 50 most-visited sites on the Web, and what they found doesn’t square with what the sites claim are their policies. Their new report calls for significant changes, including increased user choice and more readable privacy statements.