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Changes to our policies
- r00k 15y agoNice writing. Nailed the right tone and level of detail. Feels like it came from humans.
- shib71 15y agoI've wished for change overviews like this. Paypal policy changes in particular - when they send an email simply to say that their 10 page policy document has changed, that isn't helpful.
- r00fus 15y agoLaw requires changes to policy to be notified, but doesn't require diffs. Diffs would be very nice, as would some way of tracking those changes over time. Opportunity for useful service?
- pmadden 15y agoThe EFF diffs some, e.g. http://www.tosback.org/diff.php?vid=1736 http://www.tosback.org/diff.php?vid=1736. That one actually suggests an improvement: You have to strain your eyes to find the difference. In other pairs, the differences stand out better.
- JonnieCache 15y ago>Feels like it came from humans. Agreed. This is a hard thing to get right, especially with these kind of 'inhuman' legal/procedural issues.
- thesis 15y ago"We want to be clear about how we collect and use that data, so we’ve explained it in our privacy policy. For example, we collect information such as your country, operating system and the hardware ID from your device. This data allows us to optimize your experience for your device and language." I was thinking they'd have examples like the above in their Privacy Policy... but I was wrong. If they want to be crystal clear, I think they need to be more specific rather than Analytics, Geo-Location Info, and Personal Info are stored. "For example" to me seems like just the tip of the iceberg, and the three bullet points seem fairly basic.
- DenisM 15y agoHere's my privacy policy: http://www.geetasks.com/remote http://www.geetasks.com/remote What do you think?
- orijing 15y agoPerhaps they can have ellipses (...) that, when moused over, describe in legal detail everything they collect, so those of us who care for the details can read more into it. But I applaud them for trying to keep it readable and short. The tradeoff is hard to make, but at least for me, it was a right balance.
- fmavituna 15y ago"1.) Encryption keys" .. "would either be impossible or would be much more cumbersome for users without this capability." Then make it optional and disable these services for people opt-in for managing their own private keys.
- bkorte 15y agoOr you can use other products if you don't like their decisions.
- sukuriant 15y agoIndeed, encrypting something that's already encrypted isn't a bad thing
- fmavituna 15y agoI'm already doing that.
- quinndupont 15y agoOr complain enough such that you, and all your friends, stop using the service. It's an even more effective way to convince the company to change.
- joshzayin 15y agoI agree. At least on the Mac client, there's already an "Advanced" preference pane. Why not create an option there for the user to manage their own encryption key, and possibly what folders it applies to? (For example, they could exempt shared and public folders but encrypt everything else.)
- Derbasti 15y agoYou type a key in some proprietary software. Anything beyond that is only based on trusting the software.
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- creativityhurts 15y agoThey've updated the blog post to clarify some stuff.