> This is completely pointless. They'll just add some form you have to sign before giving you service and that's about it. > > After all, do you read and act on the privacy notifications other providers give you?

So that's an interesting thing that's come up in the European Union, where the "constitution"/"bill of rights"[1] mandates "consent" for processing of personal data, namely does one of those click though I Agree things count as "informed consent".

Let's be honest, vast majority of people aren't actually consenting to things that are in the contract.

[1] For political reasons there is no "European Union Constitution". However there is the "Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union" which is sorta a "Bill of rights"