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Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It

Accepted submission by tt0265459 at 2015-06-29 16:39:54
Security

The New York Times published an article [nytimes.com] 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.


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