5/27/26

Carpool Confessions: Happy Privacy Day (Part 2)

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Sharon: Have you ever read a privacy policy? 

Son: No.

Sharon:  Do you know who your mom is?

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Son: Yeah. 

Sharon: And you haven't read a privacy policy? 

Son: No. 

Sharon: Oh god.

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Sharon: So, how often do you actually read the privacy policy? 

Blonde Girl: Huh? 

Sharon: You are back.

Hudson: I am.

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Sharon: So, do you read privacy policies or do you pretend to read privacy policies?

Hudson:  Uh,

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Sharon: It it… do you ever read them?

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You don't? All right. So, how many times have you pretended to read the privacy policy?

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Man in Toque: All of the time. I try to, but it is un incomprehensible. And I think that's a huge problem. Sharon: That is a huge problem..

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Man with Glasses:  It's so long, It's so legal. half half you don't even understand. So you know everybody scrolls down and presses accept

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Sharon: most of the work ones like uh 

Man in Toque: in terms of conditions for writers and what so I'm an actor and so I want to make sure that I'm not licensing away my

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voice image name or likeness in perpetuity or for use in other projects.

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So I really have to go through it in a fine tooth comb.

Sharon:  Okay so do what everyone else does. 

Man with Glasses: No, but it's so complicated to read.

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Sharon: If Okay, I will give you $5 if you tell me what a digital cookie is. 

Son: I don't know.

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Sharon: You don't know what a cookie is? 

Son: Like the things you eat? 

Sharon: No. A digital cookie. Like like on the internet.

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Son: Like when I ask you if you're allowed to use cookies or 

Sharon: Yeah. To accept cookies.

Son:  Can I have my $5 account?

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Hudson: They use cookies to get your information.

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Sharon: Mhm. 

Hudson: And then they have all the rights of that information. 

Blonde Girl: I have no idea. 

Sharon: Okay. Just save myself $5 then.

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Blonde Girl: Yeah. My bets it's um like they just sent you a cookie maybe. Who knows?

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Sharon: Okay. Mhm.

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Have you heard of it? A cookie on your browser?

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Man with Glasses: Yeah. There always says, "Do you accept cookies?"

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Sharon: And do you accept it or do you decline it?

Man with Glasses:  No, I accept it.

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Sharon: Why? If you have the option to accept or decline, why are you accepting it?

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Woman with Glasses: There's different kinds of cookies. Do you know how I know this? consulting. Um,

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Sharon: You have to be a little more specific to get the $5. I don't know.

Hudson: I'll take four. 

Sharon: I think you've earned about 50 cents.

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Sharon: Hudson, how about this? Read the privacy policy. May tell you what a cookie is in there. You can earn $5.

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Hudson: Siri, what is cookie? What is it? 

Sharon: Pulled up a cookie. It pulled up a chocolate chip cookie.

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Brunette Girl: Isn't it they're like we can we use cookies so we can track your activity throughout these websites and the other websites you use so we can put like

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targeted ads and stuff like that. Is that what it is? Is that what it is?

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Sharon: Um, okay. I don't have $5 on me, but I I'll drop it off.

Man in Toque:  Digital cookie is a tracker that will

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go be logged into your history cache so that it can track your movement from website to website and feed it back to

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the original sources but also can help you self-populate websites that you frequented before.

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Sharon: That's pretty good. That's much better than most people.

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Okay, quick tell me what is the last thing that you searched on the internet? No lying.

Son:  I don't have a phone.

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Husband: Hey, babe.

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Sharon: So, what is the last thing you search on your phone? No lying.

Husband: Nope.

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Sharon: Hey, what is the last thing that you searched on your phone? And don't lie.

Brunette Girl:  I'm not going to lie. Okay, I'm scared.

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What was the last thing?

Sharon:  So am I. 

Brunette Girl: What was the last thing I searched?

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So, the last thing I searched up, like properly searched up, was 

Woman with Glasses: Why is my brain not working? Maybe because too much cuz I'm on my screen.

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It's why it's not and I haven't had my creatine yet this morning

Blonde Girl: probably for school. 

Sharon: Oh, how studious of you.

Blonde Girl: Science

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Sharon: Okay, very good. Is are you lying to me?

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Blonde Girl: I don't think so. I don't really use Google or Safari.

Sharon: You don’t!

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Blonde Girl: I use ChatGPT if I need. 

Man in Toque: Last thing I looked up on a browser,

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Air Iceland, because they have a free stopover program in Iceland and they have a sale on right now and you could fly in their premium whatever it is,

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which is their business for like 1,300 bucks return 

Sharon: Great Advertisement. 

Man in Toque: The last thing I looked at.

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Sharon: Okay. 

Brunette Girl: The last thing I searched like remember I remember recently was I was a bit strange was like what was the youngest age someone's ever went through menopause?

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Sharon: Oh, are you are you doing some research for your mom? 

Brunette Girl: No, I was just cuz I got heat flashes in the middle of the day at school and I was like, "Oh my god, I feel like I'm going through menopause right now." And I got really stressed out.

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It was 11, by the way. 

Sharon: 11? You can get menopause at 11.

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Brunette Girl: Yeath. this girl got a menopause when she was 11. 

Sharon: Whoa! 

Brunette Girl: It was kind of scary. 

Woman in Glasses: It was school calendars. 

Sharon: Boring.

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Woman in Glasses: So boring. Oh, it's not exciting at all. 

Sharon: What?

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Woman in Glasses: It wasn't anything exciting. It was actually I honestly was it like  honestly ?

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Sharon: It was when the kids when do the kids go back to school?

Woman in Glasses: It was when the kids when the kids go back to school l for the 2026 27 year. It wasn't even for this year.

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Sharon: When can I just get rid of them? 

Woman in Glasses: When are they out of my house? 

Sharon: Yes. Okay. One word of advice.

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Read the privacy policy. Get to know what a cookie is so you can make some good decisions about what information you're going to give away.

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Hudson: I will. 

Sharon: Okay.

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Thank you, Hudson. I'll see you when you're 11. 

Hudson: Okay. 

Sharon: Okay. Closer to the camera. Yep. Mhm.

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Hey, Dad. Do you know what I do for a living? 

Man in Glasses: Yeah.

Sharon:  Can you explain it?

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