Post #1076724

2026-04-09 17:56 UTC

Very slightly work adjacent: a &quot;we&#39;ve updated our privacy policy&quot; email in my inbox reminded me of a thing that $work did, and that I wish every company did: we checked all our ToS and similar documents into a git repo and published it, so that when they change you can just go look at the damn diff and see what changed (https://github.com/tailscale/terms-and-conditions). If you work someplace and have the authority to do this, I wish this was normalized and expected of corporations that expect us to ingest a short story worth of legalese and keep up with the changes over time.

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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2026-04-09 18:06

As a random example: apparently the privacy policy changed in August last year. Oh no, scary, what horrors lurk within? Well, textual diffs are a little messy, and obviously for big changes you'd want a lawyer to reevaluate the whole document in context not just the changes... But https://github.com/tailscale/terms-and-conditions/commit/1f1f891b38d8b9d86132b9c502391b608338f589 makes it pretty easy to see that there were a bunch of minor verbiage changes that don't result in a semantic change, and that apparently tailscale switched to a new vendor for processing GDPR inquiries. Isn't that a lot fucking easier than "we changed our privacy policy, here's the new one, no you can't see the old one any more, good luck lol"

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