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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.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:32PM
Still, even without violating your employers NDA, there would be dozens of such references on the net if it were true.
It would have appeared in court testimony.
It would be in news papers.
There would be people moaning about it on privacy grounds.
But all you ever see is people speculating without a single on line reference.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.