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Default Settings Are Your Real Policy

Most people never change defaults — so make the protective option default.

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Whatever your privacy settings default to is what the overwhelming majority of users will actually live with. Setting the most protective option as the default shifts the burden from the user to the design, where it belongs.

“Your defaults are the privacy policy people actually get.”

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