Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do

Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by telchar on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:33PM (#23566861)

If companies expected and wanted users to be informed, the standard "we've updated our privacy policy" would be accompanied with a detailed list of changes or some sort of friendly marked-up change log. I have never seen anything like that from any company, so I have a hard time believing privacy policies and TOS are meant to be informative.

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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by gpderetta on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:35PM (#23567707)

At least in the UK, banks and utilities do send human readable deltas of their contract changes. I assume there are laws that force them to.

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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by londons_explore on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:25AM (#23571590)

In the UK, far more companies are making contracts for end users that fit on one screen of a phone as 3 bullet points...

Eg.

To use this service, you agree:

* You have no criminal convictions

* You have only 3 donkeys.

* No family member has ever owned a kazoo.

[ I agree ]

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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by blaser-waffle on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:14AM (#23574168)

Discrimination against kazoo owners is a thing in the US and US-based EULAs too :(

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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by nickff on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:56PM (#23567223)

One potential problem is that any error in the markup might be the basis of a class-action suit; it's safer just to provide the full text, and there is no benefit to providing the markup.

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