Privacy? What’s Privacy?
Nick Heer on the sorry state of privacy policies:
As long as it is left up to companies to negotiate individually with users and nominally inform them about their privacy sacrifices, this problem will never go away. There is just too much money encouraging the worst behaviour. The only thing stopping this is to require this industry to rebuild, from scratch, with privacy at the core — and the only way that happens is to destroy, with law, any incentives for collecting, merging, and sharing incidental or behavioural user data. Only then can we consider ending the ridiculous practice of requiring a separate, wildly permissive contract for every digital product and service we use.