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Writing Privacy Policies – Lessons From Indymedia 10

somebody-with-too-much-time writes "Privacy policies have recently come up quite a bit on Slashdot. One Indymedia administrator explains why privacy policies are so complicated to understand, shows some examples of good ones, and shows you how to roll your own."
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Writing Privacy Policies – Lessons From Indymedia

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  • Re:Honestly... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by vux984 ( 928602 ) on Thursday September 04, 2008 @05:34PM (#24880339)

    Does anyone not use Google (for example) because of their privacy policy, or their use of beacons?

    Yes. I don't avoid google entirely; their search engine is too useful, but I block their scripts, and don't use a single one of their services.

    Ok ok... I do have a gmail account (along with other webmail accounts) that I use from time to time to confirm that an html newsletter I send (yes, to double-opt-in-subscribers) renders correctly, but that's it.

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