2y ago

How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy

How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1076839

Archived version: https://archive.ph/zPlSB
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230805061146/https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy

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1y ago

How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup

themarkup.org /the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy

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2y ago

How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy

themarkup.org /the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy

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It was a joke about T&C's being so long that nobody will read them (and this article being long too). I did actually read the article but it wasn't overly helpful for avoiding intrusion. Good to know what the actual terms refer to though, and the structuring behind the privacy policies. Appreciate the upload, thanks:)
Tldr
- Search through document for a long ass list of keywords to find large amounts of scummy bullshit hidden within meaningless fluff bullshit. Alternative terminology potentially ensues for making it more confusing.
  
  That does not sound quick at all
I just assume if there is a privacy policy, then the policy is no privacy.
- Def the other way around.
  Writing a privacy policy generally forces a company to make commitments about what they will and won’t do with data they collect about you.
  No privacy policy means anything goes — they didn’t say what they will or won’t do, so you can’t sue them if they do something sketchy.
  But many jurisdictions require companies to publish a privacy policy, so just about any company these days will have one. The devil is in the details though, as this article points out.
  
  Eh I figure everything you put online is on a marketplace somewhere. If it's not the website that sold it, it's the hackers that stole the data. Even when they claim they don't store the data there always seems to be a plain text storing backup server that they forgot about. Then there's data scrapers and 3rd party embedded trackers (looking at you share to Facebook button). And good luck convincing a court that thinks a PC is just a chrome portal that your owed damages for a company leaking your data.
  Much easier to control the data at the source and keep websites from getting data in the first place. Trust is long dead online.
https://tosdr.org/
Just copy and paste t&c into chatgpt and have it summarize or point out any alarming clauses.
- Have your read ChatGPT Privacy Policy? Most sane people that read it wouldn't use it.
  
  https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
  Just dont provide real name and dont chat about private stuff and I think its tolerable
  
  Let's all throw away our devices and live in the woods. Only insane people wouldn't.

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