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Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them
Techdirt is reporting that while we all know privacy policies may not matter much in the grand scheme of things, a recent study shows that it may be even worse than originally surmised. It seems that the real issue is with who has access to personal data and what they are able to do with it. "of course, it's not just the people reading the policies that don't seem to understand them -- it's those in charge of living up to and enforcing the policies. A new study surveyed a bunch of executives, including both marketing execs and those in charge of enforcing the privacy policy, and quickly discovered that marketers have a very different concept of 'privacy' than privacy officers. Not surprisingly, they don't see anything wrong with sharing all sorts of data that seems to horrify privacy officers."
Water is wet. Shit stinks. Money is nice to have. Details at 11.
You mean... marketers don't care about us? All they care about is our money? So many illusions shattered.
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who is modding this crap as interesting?
It's those damn moderator-robots, of course!
(Which I'm told are the robust, self-controlled pinnacles of Slashdot moderating who will never fail us.)
I can't let you do that, Dave.
I, for one, would seriously like to see a survey conducted across a wide ranges of job types
I, for one, am glad to see a post that begins with "I, for one" but doesn't end with "overlords."
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