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Ask HN: Can a privacy policy comply with laws without guaranteeing any privacy?

Does a privacy policy need to guarantee a certain amount of privacy, or can it simply say you have no privacy and still be compliant?

For example, this privacy policy says you have no privacy:

https://lobste.rs/privacy

I'm not familiar with the site. I found it by searching HN about privacy policies and I was wondering if this is just snarky or whether it's actually okay to do.

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Re:Ask HN: Can a privacy policy comply with laws without gua... by throwaway888abc on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:31PM (#25897322)