[sdnog] Privacy Policy Analyzer

[Patrick Okui]

On 12 Apr 2018, at 20:45 EAT, Philip Paeps wrote:

> On 2018-04-13 00:09:58 (+0800), Hiba Eltigani wrote:
>> On the wake of FB case and data privacy, this tool looks interesting 
>> but its effectiveness is subject to debate. The question is whether 
>> users don't pay enough attention because they are not aware or they 
>> don't care?  
>> https://www.wired.com/story/polisis-ai-reads-privacy-policies-so-you-dont-have-to/amp?__twitter_impression=true
>
> Ignorance or apathy?  I don't know and I don't care? :-)

Most people truly do not understand. To them we sound like a group of 
tinfoil hat wearing nuts trying to protect our brains from being 
scanned. Honestly when you look at the faces of people when you ask them 
not to take pictures of you (without asking) and that if they do they 
need to not upload it to certain places, I’m sure you get weird looks. 
More on that later.

The other thing is most social media sites know how to phrase a question 
about giving away your rights in a way that it looks benign and useful. 
Even if you don’t have an FB account facial recognition et al from 
people who do allows FB to still track you pretty accurately. In case 
you didn’t know why Trouble doesn’t like his picture randomly taken 
now you do. Recently FB now lets end users see some effects of the 
facial recognition tech and came up with 
https://www.facebook.com/help/463455293673370 . You’d be surprised at 
how many people see that as a “cool feature” rather than “scary as 
hell”.

I can only hope that a side effect of the hearing etc is people will 
learn to take some things seriously and not out-of-this-world conspiracy 
theories.

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patrick