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How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup (themarkup.org)

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[–] oDDmON 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

‘s a long read. Here’s the intro blurb:

An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy By Jon Keegan and Jesse Woo

Gonna dive in and see what nuggets of wisdom they offer.

[–] Jakdracula 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool- if you have time, can you distill it down for us into a few bullet points?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The article has a '👀' emoji before important parts, which shortens it somewhat. (I fully read everything)