Enonymous's "Odd Privacy Ratings"

When the Electronic Privacy Information Center gets a poor privacy rating, you might think something's wrong. It is. Enonymous.com is apparently giving out weird ratings to many Web sites, including this one - earlier, it claimed Slashdot had no privacy policy and now it wrongly claims we share your data without permission. Other sites were getting different readings though they linked to the same policy. Meanwhile, Enonymous' own privacy policy has been challenged. I'm left wondering - if even experts can't make sense of online privacy policies, what good do they do?

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Experts?

[turg]

Define "expert" -- who is "enonymous.com" and why do I care what they say? Currently their web server appears to have gone down hard (any URL under their domain returns the error "the requested resource is in use") so I don't know what they call themselves but from what I've read on the other links posted here, I wouldn't call them "privacy experts" -- more like a market research firm (which some might consider the opposite, as they are in the business of gathering and sharing data). See the mailing list post linked above.

Perhaps this is part of the problem? For these people to criticize the privacy policies of other internet companies seems like a conflict of interest, as these are either their competition or potential customers.

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