#privacypolicies — Public Fediverse posts

🚗🖌️ Behold, the epic saga of Jiro Yamada—a genius automotive artist whose life is now a YouTube tribute swamped in copyright disclaimers and privacy policies. Because nothing says "eternal legacy" like a video buried in Google's fine print! 📜🎥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2gQ5Md60U #JiroYamada #AutomotiveArt #YouTubeTribute #CopyrightIssues #PrivacyPolicies #HackerNews #ngated

Zero-build privacy policies with Astro

https://www.openpolicy.sh/blog/no-build-astro

#HackerNews #ZeroBuild #PrivacyPolicies #Astro #OpenSource #PrivacyTech

Legalese and forced scrolling in online #PrivacyPolicies — Trust Café https://www.trustcafe.io/en/post/1767575100750-70f071f1 #Datenschutz #privacy

Behold! An "interactive" history atlas that lets you relive the thrilling battles of yesteryear...and by that, we mean clicking through cookie pop-ups and copyright disclaimers. ⚔️✨ Perfect for those who find delight in navigating labyrinthine privacy policies instead of actual maps. 🗺️🔍
http://geacron.com/home-en/ #interactiveatlas #historybattles #privacypolicies #cookiepopups #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

University of Michigan: Is your bank keeping your secrets? New study says ‘It’s complicated’. “The researchers analyzed privacy policies from more than 2,000 of the nation’s largest banks and found a maze of contradictory, confusing, and overlapping disclosures about how customer information is collected, used, and shared. Nearly half of the banks examined published multiple privacy […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/12/university-of-michigan-is-your-bank-keeping-your-secrets-new-study-says-its-complicated/

So someone decided to DIY a phone 📱 because apparently, the tech giants have lost their sparkle ✨. Meanwhile, Google is busy drowning us in legal jargon and privacy policies nobody reads 🤔. But hey, kudos to the brave soul trying to outshine a trillion-dollar industry with a soldering iron! 🔧💡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0 #DIYPhone #TechGiants #Innovation #PrivacyPolicies #SolderingIron #HackerNews #ngated

Those “we’ve updated our privacy policy” notifications feel like a trap. And who has time to read every sentence in every one of them? And even if we do, most of us aren’t attorneys, making them nebulous anyway.

Thankfully, @Em0nM4stodon has your back with this guide on what to look for.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/03/red-and-green-privacy-flags/

#Privacy #PrivacyPolicies #RedFlags #InfoSec #WatchingTheWatchers

👨‍🏫 Watch as David Nolen attempts to explain #ClojureScript, while YouTube's legalese scrolls faster than his code. 🎥 Spoiler: The only "first principles" you'll grasp are Google's privacy policies. 🔍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An-ImWVppNQ #DavidNolen #YouTubeLegal #PrivacyPolicies #TechEducation #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yet another riveting YouTube clip on "expanding racks"—because who doesn't crave watching metal shelves stretch in slow-mo? 📈😴 Meanwhile, the text reads like a legal disclaimer salad, seasoned with #buzzwords and privacy policies. 🥗🔍 Thanks, Google, for this thrilling journey into the abyss of #monotony. 🎢💤
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWknov3Xpts #YouTubeContent #ExpandingRacks #PrivacyPolicies #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🎓 Another legend passes, and the only thing this "news" site can muster is a word salad of college rankings and privacy policies. R.I.P. George E. Smith, apparently the only thing less relevant here than UniversityCube's endless lists. 📜🔍
https://www.universitycube.net/news/ccd-co-inventor-george-e-smith-passes-away-95-05-31-2025--74189653-c0e2-489c-86c7-71d852a5200b #RIPGeorgeESmith #UniversityCube #CollegeRankings #PrivacyPolicies #WordSalad #HackerNews #ngated

🔥📚 "Ambitious" research in the modern era boiled down to a YouTube video - because nothing says groundbreaking innovation quite like buffering ads and autoplay rabbit holes. 😂🔍 Apparently, the secret to success involves navigating privacy policies and testing new features from the comfort of your couch. 🛋️🎥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DVlI_Ztq8 #AmbitiousResearch #YouTubeInnovation #PrivacyPolicies #CouchComfort #ModernEra #HackerNews #ngated

The Conversation: Online privacy policies can be 90,000 words long. Here are 3 ways to simplify them. “… some privacy scholars have argued that it’s nearly impossible for us to properly manage how our personal data are collected and used online. But even though it might be hard to imagine, we can regain control over our data. Here are three possible reforms to online privacy policies […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/29/the-conversation-online-privacy-policies-can-be-90000-words-long-here-are-3-ways-to-simplify-them/

To Accept or Not to Accept?

#Privacypolicies are not drafted for a common user but for a person with sufficient legal and technical knowledge and training to be able to understand what words like “non-personally identifiable attributes” or “performance and functionality cookies” even mean.

Learn how to embrace #onlineprivacy, and #empower yourself to read between the lines of these policies!

Read the full Privacy Policies 101 here: https://sflc.in/to-accept-or-not-accept-that-is-the-privacy-question/

#SFLCin #India #PrivacyMatters

#Data is more valuable than money in the 21st century. To avoid having your #data used without your #consent or in an unauthorized way, you must be aware of your #rights, responsibilities, and obligations regarding #onlineprivacy.

@sflcin has published a two-part comprehensive analysis report on the #privacypolicies for different apps. The report sheds light on the collected data and where it goes.

Read more on 👉 sflc.in/to-accept-or-not-accept-that-is-the-privacy-question/

@TodayInTwitter

Hmm, this seems to be a moment where the #fediverse's growing movement of #PrivacyPolicies and individual #UserPrivacyPolicy's curtailed Grok.

This is just basic foreshadowing about the death of xAI's latest folly I.T. sounds like as a stolen lyric was used for the above statement from a song, obvs.

Edit: Link to the above twipp 👇⚠️

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1732775019598745973

I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad...

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

#privacy #privacypolicies #cars

@craignewmark @tchambers thanks for posting that excellent article on #PrivacyPolicies.

I was a little disappointed that they didn't mention [Terms of Service; Didn't Read]( https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage ). With all that research that the authors did, they could probably have contributed a lot... Then I realized, #PrivacyPolicy and #TermsOfService are not the same thing 🤦

Even though TOSDR mentions privacy frequently, I could not find it in their about page.

Cc: @jonkeegan, @ToSDR

#privacy

#Privacy #PrivacyPolicies #DataProtection: "Privacy policies are horrible. They are too long, impenetrable, and full of legalese that amounts to a take it or leave it offer. But the privacy policy is one of the only places where tech companies have to tell us the truth—the truth about what personal data they are collecting, how they share and profit from that data, and at a deeper level, what sort of trade we’re making when we choose to use their apps or platforms.

They follow a predictable structure, meaning you can learn to navigate them, spotting key sections and passages from a safe skimming height, swooping down only to extract the juiciest morsels of information or to leverage an opportunity to opt out of certain collection (or to opt in to deeper, more personalized disclosure).

We can teach you how to do that. Drawing from our shared experience—Jon as a reporter who has read hundreds of these documents in the course of his reporting, and Jesse, an intern with us who also happens to be an attorney who has helped write dozens of privacy policies himself—we have some tips we want to share with you about what to look out for. We also asked some privacy experts to weigh in and share their advice with our readers."

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

60 Organizations Launch Campaign Urging US Congress to Protect Privacy

https://news.bitcoin.com/60-organizations-launch-campaign-urging-us-congress-to-protect-privacy/

#privacypreservationtools #BlockchainAssociation #Authoritarianregimes #End-to-EndEncryption #organizationsprivacy #privacypreservation #FilecoinFoundation #privacylegislation #Privacy-preserving #DefiEducationFund #FightfortheFuture #privacyprotection #Cryptocurrencies #60Organizations #ElectricCoinCo. #privacypolicies

Uniswap Labs Releases Privacy Policy, Says It Collects Data Related to Wallets, Devices, and Browsers - Uniswap Labs, the firm behind Uniswap, released a new privacy policy.
Th... - https://dailycoin.com/uniswap-labs-releases-privacy-policy-says-it-collects-data-related-to-wallets-devices-and-browsers/ #zzzeditorspicks #privacypolicies #uniswap(uni) #zz_popular #zzznative #definews #zz_index #zz_top

Imagine if a law forced companies to make sure we *actually* read and understood their #termsOfUse and #privacyPolicies.

Like for example, you have to answers some questions about the some details in the document before you can create your account.

Or you can't click I Agree before a reasonable time has passed, and the longer the document, the longer that duration!

#bigTech

For a while now I have started to give importance to the #privacypolicies of services and applications that I use frequently. That's why I thought of doing a #survey :blobgrin:

DO YOU READ PRIVACY POLICIES?
(Poll is in previous toot ⤴️)

Answers:
Always 🧐
Almost always 😌
Sometimes 🙄
Never 😥

Retweets and comments are appreciated :blobheart: .

FACIAL RECOGNITION WARNING:-

Some #shops in #Australia have started using #facialRecognition and they only tell visitors with a little note somewhere near the entance and hidden in their website #privacyPolicies.

Offending stores to #boycott are:
👎 #BunningsWarehouse (website is #cloudFlare too so no loss there),
👎 #KMart (website gives data to #ScAmazon), and
👎#electronics retailer #TheGoodGuys (website is Microsoft-partnered #Akamai, so avoid anyway).

#massSurveillance #theft #identityTheft