In effect, there’s a race to the bottom as companies make representations that are weak and provide little actual privacy protection to consumers!
The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about 9 million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company “respects your privacy.”
That respect could lapse, however, if the company is ever sold or goes bankrupt. At that point, according to a clause several screens deep in the policy, the host of details Hulu can gather about subscribers — names, birth dates, email addresses, videos watched, device locations and more — could be transferred to “one or more third parties as part of the transaction.” The policy does not promise to contact users if their data changes hands.
Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/top-websites-put-escape-hatches-into-privacy-policies/
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