CNBC piece about privacy policies

[C Matthew Curtin]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim May <tcmay at got.net> writes:

  Tim> This is probably a design feature, not a bug.

Agreed.  Privacy policies aren't so much policies to protect privacy
as much as they are obscurely-phrased statements of what they're going
to do whilst being effectively immune from lawsuits.  ("You agreed to
it! You didn't opt out!")

  Tim> My recourse is to take my business elsewhere, of course.

Finding anyone in the industry who doesn't work this way is a trick.

Maybe we need a Cypherpunk Bank.

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Matt Curtin cmcurtin at interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/