Hi WWW


Original 'Information Part 1'  24/May/2014:
 

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I want to revisit the topic of Information and privacy policies.

Why is it important for companies to NOT have access to your information?

Simply because they can share that information with people you would consider strangers, even intimate details. Sure there are companies with long standing reputations that worked to build up your trust.. sure sure. But their privacy policies have..  certain devices, inner workings, whether or not they will *actually* protect you.

Last year I used a Samsung Phone for the first time, it was my first interaction with Samsung as a company. I read their PP (Privacy Policy) which seemed a little strange but OK I'm new to Samsung Android Phones I'll just wait it out for a bit until I feel a bit more comfortable. I was trying to download themes.. I didn't care if these themes were from Google or Samsung, I only wanted a selection.. I was down right aghast at the PP for their theming app: They wanted access to the entire phone but in the PP they say they will share it with third parties!

So let me get this straight.. you can active and take pictures/video/audio from my phone whenever you please and share them with third parties?? you can access all video, pictures and everything I write and share that with third parties? that PP is EVIL.

I don't know Samsung as a company.. but I don't use that phone unless I can use applications created by Google or other companies.

Let me be crystal clear: you cannot do both it is EVIL.

There are two types of PP.. the third is ILLEGAL in every country of the world except dictatorships.

First type of PP is a 'Walled Garden' The company you deal with has access to your information, but no other companies do. The trustworthy companies also say that they do NOT share your information even with subsidiaries. None of this data should personally identify you, it should not include your name, address, location, what you look like (tagging), your private text messages. It SHOULD have, your browsing data (except if using private mode)  what things you bought and how long you took to decide to buy them. that's it. nothing more.  In exchange for this analytical data they give you free programs. Information aggregation is a different thing, in the same field, where they take all your text data and put it through a supercomputer to predict what humans are most likely to do, used for marketing and politics. None of the data that identifies you should be included in that either but some of your personal conversations may go with the rest of the aggregation.

Analytics vs aggregation, analytics is where a human sorts through your data, they should not be able to show up at your house and tell you about you. Aggregation is when all the info is dumped into a computer and it sorts out which products are bad for the market and which are good e.g 'Stacy is talking in chat to Carol.. Stacy says: ohw this nail polish from manufacturer A is bad, manufacturer B was much better..' Manufacturer A wants to know if their product-line will continue being successful after launch or if to cut their losses. Aggregation has the answer. Sharing information via aggregation is OK because even though it is not stripped of all personally identifiable data, no human will ever read it. Humans innately can understand context, but computers do not, this is why aggregation is OK and analytics cannot share your information with third parties, because humans DO understand context.

Second type is a 'Open Park' style of PP. Think of a park.. you can look around and see what is, say.. the most popular colour of t-shirt in that park on that day. Open Park gives next to zero information (pretty much just your email address & age) and companies need to guess what you are doing. No access to anything personal or private.. and if they find out something about you, they can share it with whomever they like.


The Evil Third Way:

Take all your data and share it however they like. This was what Samsung did for the PP on their Theme App.

What kind of lawyers did Samsung employ to write this piece of filth?
Dewey, Cheatum and Howe?

Samsung imho is an evil company for this fact alone.
Shame as I regularly watch Casey Neistat and he is an endorsee of Samsung.

I wondered how he would feel about them activating his phone and taking pictures of him and Candice sharing a private moment? Or if he was with Francine?


Samsung has a few PP's for a few apps.. I saw one that was OK/grey and the rest slightly on the darker site but not 'evil'. the PP below was undoubtedly evil.

Dava

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Full details (scroll to the bottom) on the privacy policy here:

 

https://ftr-ceu.blogspot.com/2018/04/information-part-two-3-years-laters-or.html