We need to stop summarizing privacy policies (Reject Convenience)

2026-04-27 22:43 UTC

Another great video from Reject Convenience, you should especially watch the part (7:29 - 10:15) about how specific location data can get with precise location on (spoiler alert: a literal battery width radius, please only allow precise location for your map app 🤢) He also has a great tool he explains throughout the video, his privacy visualizer which you can click as you go through a site’s privacy policy to mark what they collect and how they handle the data (just collected, traded/shared, or sold?) If you want a starting point, try looking at the permissions of the apps you have downloaded. Or try looking at Terms of Service; Didn’t Read to figure out who the biggest offenders are first and work your way up to the least creepiest providers.

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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 04:16

The correct solution here is for courts to throw out the policies on grounds of vagueness etc. and hold the companies for the digital stalking they do. If not in the regulatory-captured US, at least somwhere else where they still give a shit about consumer rights.

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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-04-28 00:19

Privacy policies honestly are rarely worth reading. They are intentionally grossly encompassing, vague and unintelligible. They'll put shit in there that they have no intention of doing but might in the future, or might accidentally happen, because they know no one reads or understands them or cares. They include vague language like "our partners", which can be vastly different degrees of invasive and dangerous but you'll never know because they don't list them and they change constantly. There's really only one question you need to ask yourself when creating an account: Do I REALLY NEED this service? Because if ya do, it doesn't matter what the PP says. And if ya don't, just don't do it. Assume you have 0 privacy, because 99% of the time they are collecting and selling every piece of data they can possibly collect about you.

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@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-27 23:22

How big a battery? Are we talking about the size of a large rock? Or small rock?

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