{"id":40133,"date":"2004-03-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/22\/a-privacy-policy-that-doesnt-actively-offend-me\/"},"modified":"2004-03-22T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T07:00:00","slug":"a-privacy-policy-that-doesnt-actively-offend-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040322-00\/?p=40133","title":{"rendered":"A privacy policy that doesn&#039;t actively offend me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve ranted before about privacy policies and how they don&#8217;t  actually protect your privacy.  (All they&#8217;re required to do is  disclose the policy; there is no requirement that the policy must  be any good.)\n  Today I read  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metlife.com\/Applications\/Corporate\/WPS\/CDA\/PageGenerator\/0,1674,P560,00.html\">  MetLife&#8217;s privacy policy<\/a> and found to my surprise  that it does not actively offend me.  It&#8217;s written in plain English,  it&#8217;s well-organized,  and it actually explains <strong>and limits the scope of<\/strong>  each exception.<\/p>\n<p>  I have noticed  how the word &#8220;terrorism&#8221; has turned into a &#8220;magic word&#8221; of late.  Anything distasteful you want to do, just say you&#8217;re doing it  to combat &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and people will give you the green light.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve ranted before about privacy policies and how they don&#8217;t actually protect your privacy. (All they&#8217;re required to do is disclose the policy; there is no requirement that the policy must be any good.) Today I read MetLife&#8217;s privacy policy and found to my surprise that it does not actively offend me. It&#8217;s written in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;ve ranted before about privacy policies and how they don&#8217;t actually protect your privacy. (All they&#8217;re required to do is disclose the policy; there is no requirement that the policy must be any good.) Today I read MetLife&#8217;s privacy policy and found to my surprise that it does not actively offend me. It&#8217;s written in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}