Comments on: Google’s Privacy Policy: Always Changing, Not Yet Transparent http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2012/02/23/google%e2%80%99s-privacy-policy-always-changing-not-yet-transparent/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ian Roberts http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2012/02/23/google%e2%80%99s-privacy-policy-always-changing-not-yet-transparent/#comment-106394 Ian Roberts Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:54:35 +0000 http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/?p=17339#comment-106394 Privacy Policy changes should be very transparent. Why? I know many people that simply can't be bothered, or know how, to sort through the 'options' or 'settings' of programs they use. Unless a window pop-up explicitly details a user's action, many users simply won't know what they have agreed to, by clicking on a link. Can you blame them? Not at all, a program's user interface changes all the time. It gets very frustrating to find a particular setting/option, when they're always changing the location of that option. Privacy Policy changes should be very transparent. Why?

I know many people that simply can’t be bothered, or know how, to sort through the ‘options’ or ‘settings’ of programs they use.
Unless a window pop-up explicitly details a user’s action, many users simply won’t know what they have agreed to, by clicking on a link. Can you blame them? Not at all, a program’s user interface changes all the time. It gets very frustrating to find a particular setting/option, when they’re always changing the location of that option.

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