How to make privacy policies better, in two easy steps
How to make privacy policies better, in two easy steps
- August 25, 2015
- Nick Seaver, anthropology graduate student, is featured in The Atlantic August 25, 2015
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From The Atlantic:
On Twitter, Nick Seaver, an incoming anthropology professor at Tufts University, pointed
that the social costs of Spotify’s privacy policy emerged from social and technical
limitations. “The creepiness isn’t in using GPS for the running feature or whatever,
it’s in asking for GPS access independent of a specific use,” he wrote. “In normal
social interaction, you can tell someone where you are for a while without giving
them ‘forever access’ to your location.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/privacy-policies-better-in-two-easy-steps-spotify-scandal/402235/.
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