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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.

语言点

1. terms and conditions 条款与条件

· 法律语境：terms 条款conditions 条件。条款terms是一个概括性的整体概念；条件conditions是指这些条款中比较重要的条款，是合同的核心，conditions是合同成立的前提条件。

2. a joint total of 总共

· joint adj. 一起的，联合的

· joint statement 联合声明

· joint account 联名账户

· joint venture 合资企业

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

这个报告是合作的成果。

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

4. informed adj. 知情的

· informed people 知情人士

· informed choice 明智的选择

· informed guess 合理的猜测

5. consent n. 同意，许可（permission）

· make a consent/permission 取得许可

6. alternative n. 替换物

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