TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway

Re:TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it ne... by lsc on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @03:23PM (#1612181)

I don't think that's as good.

Even ignoring the cost in lawyer time to draw up and review the policies, knowing that a policy is 'reviewed by X' tells the user less than "ISP Y uses standard policy Z"

Also, just like there are different creative commons licenses that grant different rights, it's reasonable to have different privacy policies that grant different rights... and if you need a particular right, it's much easier to go "Oh, isp X uses policy Y which gives me what I want" than to go reading the custom policy that each ISP drew up.

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Re:TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it ne... by jacquesm on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @03:37PM (#1612228)

Ah ok, sorry, I see what you're saying now, just in an ISP context, I thought you meant privacy policies as a whole. Apologies.

In that case it makes perfect sense. I thought about all privacy policies and because there are so many different products out there it would be very hard to have a limited set of policies. But for the ISP subset that could definitely be done.

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Re:TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it ne... by lsc on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @03:55PM (#1612284)

Well, the infrastructure provider market is what I know and care about... but I don't think the privacy needs of, say, facebook users and twitter users are all that different. they could probably use the same privacy policy with no changes.

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