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From what I can tell they basically just went and read all the manufacturers privacy policies - that seems to be the primary source of their data. With some ba
by rkagerer 3y ago
From what I can tell they basically just went and read all the manufacturers privacy policies - that seems to be the primary source of their data. With some background sprinkled in of known breaches / past news.
I was hoping there may have been more reverse engineering or packet sniffing going on, or some other deeper means of investigation.
Don't get me wrong I care about privacy and this is important information which is great to highlight to the average Joe. But it's not like it was hidden (some of us actually do read, care about, and even send critiques back to vendors about their legal policies).
- Springtime 3y agoThe way that multiple (I counted 4) articles of theirs talked about it as though it was a report I was expecting a deeper analysis but they just presented keywords pulled from privacy policies and extrapolated. The tone used was also oddly casual and blog-like for an important topic ('ugh', 'yikes', 'wtf', liberal use of exclamations—even double exclamations), apart from hypothetical scenarios which don't help ground their points. In the AMA they admit they're unaware what various aspects mean yet the articles present findings emphatically. Mozilla recently published[1] a page about how they had four lawyers and three 'privacy experts' analyze a Microsoft service agreement and yet the page contains zero comments or analysis from them, merely containing two paragraphs that the conclusion was indecisive. I do appreciate Mozilla bringing attention to such topics, though for all the money and effort they put in getting people to analyze things I kinda hoped their articles would be more substantive than what a reader can similarly determine. [1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/