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The New York Times published an article on Sunday confirming what we've all assumed — that internet privacy policies are so full of loopholes as to be meaningless. They found that of the 100 top alexa-ranked english-language websites, 85 had privacy policies that permitted them to disclose users' personal information in cases of mergers, bankruptcy, asset sales and other business transactions.
When sites and apps get acquired or go bankrupt, the consumer data they have amassed may be among the companies' most valuable assets. And that has created an incentive for some online services to collect vast databases on people without giving them the power to decide which companies, or industries, may end up with their information.
"In effect, there's a race to the bottom as companies make representations that are weak and provide little actual privacy protection to consumers," said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit research center in Washington.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:16PM
Cardinal rules:
(1) Any information you give up for any purpose will be used for all purposes.
(2) Claims of trust without straight proof to back it up is bullshit.
(3) Safety comes in probability, it's not binary.
(4) The future will be like you think it would be and then a lot more that will wreck most of your predictions.
(5) You didn't think of this one.
(6) There's information and disinformation determining which is always a challenge for all parties.
(7) Knowing means capability to act efficiently.
(8) Policy makes things correct other approaches makes for opportunities to other parties.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:44PM
Why do you have an account here? Don't leave a trail, opsec is not just for spies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @11:03PM
(9) Poison the well