#Privacy #PrivacyPolicies #DataProtection: "Privacy policies are horrible. They are too long, impenetrable, and full of legalese that amounts to a take it or leave it offer. But the privacy policy is one of the only places where tech companies have to tell us the truth—the truth about what personal data they are collecting, how they share and profit from that data, and at a deeper level, what sort of trade we’re making when we choose to use their apps or platforms.

They follow a predictable structure, meaning you can learn to navigate them, spotting key sections and passages from a safe skimming height, swooping down only to extract the juiciest morsels of information or to leverage an opportunity to opt out of certain collection (or to opt in to deeper, more personalized disclosure).

We can teach you how to do that. Drawing from our shared experience—Jon as a reporter who has read hundreds of these documents in the course of his reporting, and Jesse, an intern with us who also happens to be an attorney who has helped write dozens of privacy policies himself—we have some tips we want to share with you about what to look out for. We also asked some privacy experts to weigh in and share their advice with our readers."

https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy

"Nowhere does it say 'this needs to suck' in the regulations" 😆​

#PrivacySeriously #PrivacyPolicies #GDPR

If that thing is what caused the confusion in the first place. A single #PrivacyPolicy should be all that is needed, explaining exactly what happens with clearly defined terms constructed in a way that even the #AverageJoe can understand it.

There should also be a basic rundown as well, often #PrivacyPolicies, #LicenceAgreements are too long and people skip reading them. A simple #Outline of the Policy/Agreement would display the general idea of the policy without boring people.

2/2

Arguably, #Apple is even worse than #Google as unless you #Jailbreak, you're forced to use Apple's apps with the tracking code and all.

Least with #Android you can somewhat mitigate the issues, if not fully mitigate by flashing a #CustomROM, but they're'll be no such luck on #iOSDevices.

The multiple #PrivacyPolicies all linked together like some sort of Mesh also does nothing but confuse people, which is the point - confused people are less likely to want to read things 1/2

Uniswap Labs Releases Privacy Policy, Says It Collects Data Related to Wallets, Devices, and Browsers - Uniswap Labs, the firm behind Uniswap, released a new privacy policy.
Th... - https://dailycoin.com/uniswap-labs-releases-privacy-policy-says-it-collects-data-related-to-wallets-devices-and-browsers/ #zzzeditorspicks #privacypolicies #uniswap(uni) #zz_popular #zzznative #definews #zz_index #zz_top

Question for fellow #webdevelopers: How do you go about #privacypolicies #CookieBanners and the entire legal froth surrounding any #webapp?

I feel deeply frustrated by this, as I don't have the legal knowledge to write legally sufficient yet understandable documents, and automated services that do exist usually just generate hard-to-read content rather than useful, informative documents.

For a while now I have started to give importance to the #privacypolicies of services and applications that I use frequently. That's why I thought of doing a #survey :blobgrin:

DO YOU READ PRIVACY POLICIES?
(Poll is in previous toot ⤴️)

Answers:
Always 🧐
Almost always 😌
Sometimes 🙄
Never 😥

Retweets and comments are appreciated :blobheart: .

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