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In the context of that sentence, the article says car companies collect that information. Here's the sentence in context: > Companies are quick to flaunt thei
by kube-system 3y ago
In the context of that sentence, the article says car companies collect that information. Here's the sentence in context:
> Companies are quick to flaunt their privacy policies, but those amount to pages upon pages of legalese that leave even professionals stumped about what exactly car companies collect and where that information might go.
> So what can they collect?
> “Pretty much everything,” said Misha Rykov, a research associate at the Mozilla Foundation, who worked on the car-privacy report. “Sex-life data, biometric data, demographic, race, sexual orientation, gender — everything.”
- robertlagrant 3y agoAgreed, but "collect" implies "from the user", rather than "buy user data from aggregators".
- kube-system 3y agoIt's probably used that way in a lot of software privacy policies, because a lot of software directly collects information, but the word 'collect' itself doesn't imply any origin.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI think it does imply an origin in this context. If I said "Apple collects your location data" and it turns out they were buying it from a data broker, and not, well, collecting it from their devices, I would feel misled.
- kube-system 3y agoThat might be a presumption in your head, based on the mechanisms you presume are in place, but that meaning is not actually contained in the words of that sentence. The word "collect" alone is ambiguous as to whether it is direct or indirect. And if you read other privacy policies, outside of the tech industry, it is normal to use the word 'collect' for information gathered from various sources. (e.g. insurance privacy policies)