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Ugh. He makes some good points, but the framing is incendiary. "Summary of the Grammarly privacy policy, and why you might want to be cautious" would be better.
by Zanni 8y ago
Ugh. He makes some good points, but the framing is incendiary. "Summary of the Grammarly privacy policy, and why you might want to be cautious" would be better.
- deogeo 8y agoAbsolutely not. Spying on this level shouldn't be normalized with "be cautious". If anything, the framing is understated. Obligatory 1984 reference: "Summary of telescreen functionality, and why you might want to be cautious."
- Zanni 8y agoI think you need to reread 1984. Telescreens were used to spy on the populace. That's more than potential indicated by overly broad language in a privacy policy. No one's made the case that Grammerly is spying, hence "predatory" is inflammatory.
- deogeo 8y ago"No one's made the case that Grammerly is spying" According to their privacy policy and the twitter reply ("Grammarly does not store all processed text, we do not use text to do anything but provide and improve our service"), they keep at least some of the text. So they log your text, but it's not spying - so when does it become spying? When the first warrant is served? And when that happens, will it not be spying because "you agreed to it by using the service, it was all spelled out in the 'overly broad' privacy policy"?