How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup
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An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy
    • nikt@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icuEnglish
        01·
        11 months ago

        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.

  • hth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    Just copy and paste t&c into chatgpt and have it summarize or point out any alarming clauses.

    • BrikoXOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Have your read ChatGPT Privacy Policy? Most sane people that read it wouldn’t use it.

        • BrikoXOPEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I guess we have very different definition of tolerable. Not only they collect everything you do there and retain it indefinitely, but they share everything with their affiliates and vendors per that privacy policy. And on top of that everything is tied to a phone number (I would also assume they block VOIP, but haven’t checked).

            • BrikoXOPEnglish
              21·
              11 months ago

              They require phone number for registration. Unless that changed recently, then please correct me.

              It’s also possible you use some other service that uses ChatGPT API, instead of OpenAI ChatGPT itself.