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The combined terms and conditions of 13 top apps including TikTok, WhatsApp and Zoom would take 17 hours and five minutes to read, a firm has estimated.

The documents contain a joint total of 128,415 words - longer than any one of the first three Harry Potter novels.

Privacy researcher Stephanie Hare said that both the length and language used in such statements made them difficult for adults and children to be able to make informed consent about what they were agreeing to - and the only alternative was to not use the app at all.

語言點(diǎn)

1. terms and conditions 條款與條件

· 法律語境：terms 條款conditions 條件。條款terms是一個概括性的整體概念；條件conditions是指這些條款中比較重要的條款，是合同的核心，conditions是合同成立的前提條件。

2. a joint total of 總共

· joint adj. 一起的，聯(lián)合的

· joint statement 聯(lián)合聲明

· joint account 聯(lián)名賬戶

· joint venture 合資企業(yè)

· The report was a joint effort.（= We worked on it together.）

這個報告是合作的成果。

3. made sth difficult for sb to do 令某人做某事很困難

4. informed adj. 知情的

· informed people 知情人士

· informed choice 明智的選擇

· informed guess 合理的猜測

5. consent n. 同意，許可（permission）

· make a consent/permission 取得許可

6. alternative n. 替換物

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