New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- Staying private online gets harder every year. People keep upgrading their passwords, installing VPNs, and regularly checking their devices for threats. But one part of online security often gets ignored - the Wi-Fi router. Because the router sits in the centre of all your internet activity, it has access to everything that passes through it.

A detailed CNET review recently examined more than 30,000 words of privacy policies from seven major brands, Arris, TP-Link, Eero, D-Link, Asus, Google Nest, and Netgear and spoke to their representatives. Most router companies collect some kind of user data, and their privacy rules are so long and confusing that the average person can't easily understand what's happening behind...