Comments on: Study: Want to Know Your Full Online Rights? Set Aside 8 Days http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/11/study-want-to-know-your-full-online-rights-set-aside-8-days/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/11/study-want-to-know-your-full-online-rights-set-aside-8-days/comment-page-1/#comment-808816 Anonymous Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:30:06 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3081#comment-808816 This would be a good us for a standard license language to be developed. Similar to the "GNU General Public License" and others for software, a standard license for site access would protect sites and consumers. This would be a good us for a standard license language to be developed. Similar to the “GNU General Public License” and others for software, a standard license for site access would protect sites and consumers.

]]> By: mattymcg http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/11/study-want-to-know-your-full-online-rights-set-aside-8-days/comment-page-1/#comment-807700 mattymcg Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:45:17 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3081#comment-807700 I know I never read privacy policies in full. I just assume that they're reasonable, and hope that I'll have some recourse if they're not, because other people will complain too. Naïve, I know. "the government, by allowing web sites to self regulate and develop their own privacy terms, has actually created an environment where a lot of time and money is wasted" Anyone who has dealt with the public sector will find the irony in this statement as humorous as I do. I know I never read privacy policies in full. I just assume that they’re reasonable, and hope that I’ll have some recourse if they’re not, because other people will complain too. Naïve, I know.

“the government, by allowing web sites to self regulate and develop their own privacy terms, has actually created an environment where a lot of time and money is wasted”

Anyone who has dealt with the public sector will find the irony in this statement as humorous as I do.

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