The correct solution here is for courts to throw out the policies on grounds of vagueness etc. and hold the companies for the digital stalking they do. If not in the regulatory-captured US, at least somwhere else where they still give a shit about consumer rights.
Privacy policies honestly are rarely worth reading. They are intentionally grossly encompassing, vague and unintelligible.
They'll put shit in there that they have no intention of doing but might in the future, or might accidentally happen, because they know no one reads or understands them or cares.
They include vague language like "our partners", which can be vastly different degrees of invasive and dangerous but you'll never know because they don't list them and they change constantly.
There's really only one question you need to ask yourself when creating an account:
Do I REALLY NEED this service? Because if ya do, it doesn't matter what the PP says. And if ya don't, just don't do it. Assume you have 0 privacy, because 99% of the time they are collecting and selling every piece of data they can possibly collect about you.
The point is to get an idea of the data that they absolutely collect. We can speculate all day about what they're not mentioning, but we can safely assume they wouldn't throw in shit that they don't actually collect.
Privacy policies honestly are rarely worth reading. They are intentionally grossly encompassing, vague and unintelligible
Yesn't. The whole point of this video was to go through a privacy policy and explain to people how to find certain terms and understand what they mean. It's not hard to do ctrl + f and do basic keywords like "health", "location", "age", "race", etc.
Do I REALLY NEED this service? Because if ya do, it doesn't matter what the PP says. And if ya don't, just don't do it. Assume you have 0 privacy, because 99% of the time they are collecting and selling every piece of data they can possibly collect about you.
Once again, that's the point of the video. If you don't need the service or determine it's not worth the data they collect from you, then don't download it. Congrats! You saved your data, which is what he wants. If you DO have to use the service, you know what kinds of data they'll collect and you can go to the settings of the service or app to reduce what you give. No need to worry about user media being collected if you deny file permissions right? Hell you could go even deeper with apps like Exodus and Permission Manger X to figure out the exact trackers and permissions to disable.
The whole point of the video (and his channel in general) is to reduce the amount of blind ignorance going on with privacy. Knowledge is power, that's why they hope people don't read privacy policies. I now know what to look out for and how to reduce it. Would you rather sit in the dark afraid of what enemy you're potentially fighting, or actually turn on the lights to see what it truly is?
we can safely assume they wouldn't throw in shit that they don't actually collect.
Again, no we can't. I explained this above.
If you DO have to use the service, you know what kinds of data they'll collect
If you do have to use it, then it doesn't matter. They're going to get it whether you read it or not.
and you can go to the settings of the service or app to reduce what you give
This is not in the privacy policy.
The whole point of the video (and his channel in general) is to reduce the amount of blind ignorance going on with privacy.
And the whole point of my comment is that the privacy policy is meaningless.
Knowledge is power, that's why they hope people don't read privacy policies.
People don't read them because they are long and complicated and most of all because they don't care.
How big a battery? Are we talking about the size of a large rock? Or small rock?
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