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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by zimpenfish on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:09PM (#23567391)
The unidirectional nature of

> When you contact Apple or its affiliated companies

carries different implications than the potential bidirectionality of

> anytime you are in contact with Apple or an Apple affiliated company

because the latter explicitly includes "when Apple contacts you".

"We may ask you questions about yourself" also implies a much wider range of latitude in the question topics than "provide your personal information".

The splitting of the "can combine your answers" and the "provide and improve" also makes me twitchy but I can't quite put my finger on why but it feels loophole-y.

(IMHO, obvs.!)

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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by zucker42 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:12PM (#23567428)
Eh, all those could be remedied with relatively small changes, and the commenter's point is clear regardless.
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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by tathougies on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:15PM (#23569205)
Sure but 10 small changes is the same as one large change.
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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by btilly on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:15PM (#23568129)
You are right, and I am unhappy with several other points of the quick redraft that I did.

However my point remains. The complexity of the language was not required by what was actually said.

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