Privacy policy
Privacy policy describes how data is being processed and handled. Unfortunately, it is rather difficult to read and understand most of these. Thus, it is common for people to igonre these and accept whatever is written into the policies.
The New York Times privacy project from 2019 illustrates the difficulty of understanding the privacy policies: We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.
We suggest to thoroughly read one privacy policy that may impact you. Thereby, you will see which information is gathered and how it is handled. The example policies can be found from the end of the page.
Voluntary exercise
Pick one privacy policy from the list below and answer the following questions:
- Which kind of data is collected?
- Can the data be shared with third parties? Which ones?
- For how long is the data stored / when it is erased?
- Can the user/client erase the personalized data or request the erasure of such data?
- Are third party cookies used?
- Did you find out anything that surprised you? What did you find?
Examples of privacy policies: