17 votes

We read 150 privacy policies. They were an incomprehensible disaster.

Posted by Algernon_Asimov
Tags: legal, privacy, content policy, interactive, paywall.soft
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/12/opinion/facebook-google-privacy-policies.html

4 comments

  1. [3]
    cfabbro
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    This is one of the reasons I really like the Canadian government's encouragement of "plain language" in online privacy policies: Which IMO is reflected quite nicely in Tildes' own privacy policy:...

    This is one of the reasons I really like the Canadian government's encouragement of "plain language" in online privacy policies:

    9. Use plain language

    Avoid writing in a ‘legalistic’ manner. Explain your practices in language that will be understood by the average visitor to your site.

    Consider providing plain-language summaries or explanations for complex subjects, while linking to or otherwise including the full description.

    Keep the document as short as possible, while providing the information people need to know.

    Which IMO is reflected quite nicely in Tildes' own privacy policy: https://docs.tildes.net/privacy-policy

    15 votes
    1. [2]
      Adys
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      The Tiles privacy policy is really nice yeah. I wrote the Privacy Policy for my previous company and it looks pretty similar: https://github.com/HearthSim/legal/blob/master/PRIVACY.md Benefit of...

      The Tiles privacy policy is really nice yeah. I wrote the Privacy Policy for my previous company and it looks pretty similar: https://github.com/HearthSim/legal/blob/master/PRIVACY.md

      Benefit of having it on Github is you get the diffs for free: https://github.com/HearthSim/legal/commits/master/PRIVACY.md

      4 votes
      1. cfabbro
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        Indeed, the diffs for the official Tildes docs are similarly available on Gitlab, e.g. privacy-policy.md commits

        Indeed, the diffs for the official Tildes docs are similarly available on Gitlab, e.g. privacy-policy.md commits

  2. hook
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    A worthy cause to make the ToS bog easier to navigate is the project ToS;DR. I warmly recommend everyone to install their browser plug-in and anyone who has some time to spare, to contribute.

    A worthy cause to make the ToS bog easier to navigate is the project ToS;DR.

    I warmly recommend everyone to install their browser plug-in and anyone who has some time to spare, to contribute.

    6 votes