Digital Privacy
How private is your information online?
Reputable online business post Privacy Stmt
The statement should understandable to
you and say what info they collect, what
they will do with it, how to “opt-out”, etc.
But, there is little policing & few penalties
Real Networks in 1999 secretly gathered data on
people’s personal music tastes, encrypted the info so
no one would know, didn’t mention it in their privacy
statement, and used TRUSTe auditor -- the day after
getting caught, they improved their privacy statement
… should we ever trust them???