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66% of Small Business Websites Lack a Privacy Policy [2026]

66% of Small Business Websites Lack a Privacy Policy [2026]

66% of company websites, two out of every three sampled, carry no privacy policy hyperlink on their landing page, according to Pennsylvania State University's 2023 study of a 7.17 million company dataset. See the sample breakdown, sector gap, and what US state privacy laws require in 2026.

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How Many Websites Have a Privacy Policy? [2026 Data]

How Many Websites Have a Privacy Policy? [2026 Data]

Top 1,000 websites carry a detectable privacy policy link 37.2% of the time, versus just 9.6% for sites ranked below 1 million, per Princeton and KU Leuven's million-document study. See the full rank breakdown, the 1998 baseline, and how policy length has changed.

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