Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Do You Agree Not To Read Our Privacy Policy?

The Guardian in Do you agree not to read our privacy policy? explains that reading an online privacy policy is really useless.

"It turned out that this privacy policy wasn't really the site's own policy. When asked, the company explained: 'It's an off-the-shelf policy and actually doesn't reflect the policy that we follow.' In other words, it came with its website because some lawyer thought more about covering the company's legal position than consumer protection. Sadly, this is what most privacy policies are in fact about."

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