- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:39:33 -0500
- To: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
There is a new tumblr like service which has started recently. I was looking at the Terms and Services
https://about.jux.com/16863
It goes like this:
Sharing
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners
and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person. We may partner with
another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up
for these services, we will share names, or other contact
information that is necessary for the third party to provide these
services. These parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these
services.
As a user it doesn't tell me anything useful that will help me assess what is shared and how. I think it is one of the issues I have with the current terms and services for many services. For example the sentence: "This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person." This doesn't tell me anything. I would prefer to know what information is shared and in which circumstances, and *then* I could assess if it is personal information.
Another one "We will share names and other contact information". What is other "contact information"?
And "are not allowed to use personally identifiable information"… What are the provision you have put in place to check that they would not breach that engagement, is there a regular audit made to do this. Because basically, the company is asking to trust them in handling my data with others, what can you tell me about the way you enforce this.
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations, Opera Software
Received on Friday, 9 March 2012 15:40:07 UTC