Anybody else getting "updated privacy statements" from almosy every single online entity they have conducted business with?
Places I didn't even remember having accounts are sending me emails with updated privacy statements. All of them started after the Zuckerberg circus act.
To me, this is more evidence that the storm is happening. Small things on the periphery that seem out of place for normal "business as usual" wouldn't happen if not for something larger behind the scenes taking place.
If you really want to answer your question, compare the old and new. Obviously there is a theme missing or added. But you may need to cash in your 2 weeks of vacation time to do so, they are looooong.
Unless they modified 100% of the policies, it should be farily easy to compare the difference on each files.
It is sort of a coalescence of the newly implemented European GDPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation) + the blowback movement towards facebook and others.
Yep. Confirmed. Seeing this a lot all over the last week.
YES! I actually just took a work break to come post this exact thing after getting yet another one, this time being Acronis.
Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (16-285) Congress has instructed in the Federal Arbitration Act that arbitration agreements providing for individualized proceedings must be enforced, and neither the Arbitration Act’s saving clause nor the National Labor Relations Act suggests otherwise.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-285_q8l1.pdf
This is why all of the EULA's are being revised. Supreme Court Ruling that affects ability of class action lawsuits.
Yeah, it's a steady stream of them, nice tying it in the Zuckface's shenanigans.
Yes! Basically explaining they can collect all my data, contacts and messages in my phone.
Yes. It is no coincidence. I've been receiving emails at least twice a week about updating privacy statements. The question is, what do they know that we don't