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.
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.
The point is to get an idea of the data that they absolutely collect. We can speculate all day about what they’re not mentioning, but we can safely assume they wouldn’t throw in shit that they don’t actually collect.
Yesn’t. The whole point of this video was to go through a privacy policy and explain to people how to find certain terms and understand what they mean. It’s not hard to do ctrl + f and do basic keywords like “health”, “location”, “age”, “race”, etc.
Once again, that’s the point of the video. If you don’t need the service or determine it’s not worth the data they collect from you, then don’t download it. Congrats! You saved your data, which is what he wants. If you DO have to use the service, you know what kinds of data they’ll collect and you can go to the settings of the service or app to reduce what you give. No need to worry about user media being collected if you deny file permissions right? Hell you could go even deeper with apps like Exodus and Permission Manger X to figure out the exact trackers and permissions to disable.
The whole point of the video (and his channel in general) is to reduce the amount of blind ignorance going on with privacy. Knowledge is power, that’s why they hope people don’t read privacy policies. I now know what to look out for and how to reduce it. Would you rather sit in the dark afraid of what enemy you’re potentially fighting, or actually turn on the lights to see what it truly is?
Again, no we can’t. I explained this above.
If you do have to use it, then it doesn’t matter. They’re going to get it whether you read it or not.
This is not in the privacy policy.
And the whole point of my comment is that the privacy policy is meaningless.
People don’t read them because they are long and complicated and most of all because they don’t care.