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How does this processing meet the company's legitimate interests?
To quote Bella_Blue's 2024-06-17 answer:
The objection to legitimate interests selection does not apply to “Necessary cookies only” due to the ‘strictly necessary’ exemption. When the “Necessary ...
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We've made changes to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy - July 2024
We’ve just made two adjustments to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy:
For the Terms of Service, we moved Copyright and DMCA information to a dedicated page.
For the Privacy Policy, we updated ...
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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?
While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page.
In its first paragraph the policy reads:
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Honour the Do Not Track header
2011-10-26: waffles's answer to Do Not Track header:
We do not do anything special for the proposed spec. There is no requirement anywhere that we implement anything. A bill may be passed in congress ...
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Replace Google Analytics with a transparent, privacy-respecting alternative
Earlier this year, Google announced that Universal Analytics (UA) will be going away and will stop processing new data after July 1, 2023.
Stack Exchange currently plans to switch to Google Analytics ...
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Stop tracking users without their consent
Right now, if you visit an SE site the following things happen:
two cookies _ga and _gid are saved, those contain unique IDs used for Google Analytics
a request is made to www.google-analytics.com ...
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We’ve made changes to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy - January 2022
We’ve just made two adjustments to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. They were made to return a section that was accidentally removed about the DMCA Designated Agent - there’s little to no ...
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Why is the Google Analytics cookie defined as "strictly necessary" and saved without consent?
When you open a Stack Exchange site the first time you are asked about your consent for storing cookies. You can disallow all cookies except those that are defined as "strictly necessary". ...
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User data in light of Stack Overflow's / Stack Exchange, Inc.'s acquisition
I would like to know how the acquisition impacts our user data, and specifically private user data.
I am aware that a large part of our contributions could be scraped from the outside (or even, ...
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Privacy updates?
I can see that Stack Overflow does not participate in the Privacy Shield program since 2020/04/17. This was two months after the last update on privacy policies and three months before the EU–US ...
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Link to cookie policy doesn't work in "Accept all cookies" popup
See also, a more narrow bug here (tagged "status-completed", incorrectly(?)).
Upon visiting some SE sites (e.g. superuser.com), logged in or not, I receive this popup:
The "Customize ...
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What are our policies regarding underage users?
What are the age requirements for using the Stack Exchange network and what should moderators do if they encounter an underage user?
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Privacy Policy Updates (Feb 2020)
We want to share with you that we have updated our Privacy Policy to keep up with the ever evolving data privacy laws and regulations concerning our global community of users and our sites. We also ...
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Is "The Loop" covered by SO's Privacy and GDPR policies?
SO's "GDPR Policy" states in part
we describe how we collect and use your data, and how we use technologies like cookies to understand how we can better help developers.
However, The Loop's first ...
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Social media disclaimer policy for SE Staff
The most recent SE incident (as well as several others earlier) was largely inflated by the interaction of SE/SE Staff with the press and some social media interactions (tweets/re-tweets, in ...
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Does Stack Exchange have a responsibility to protect the rights of their volunteers?
The question is focused on the company's responsibility for taking action without just cause against an appointed moderator on Meta Stack Exchange (herein called SE).
There is a moderator contract ...
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Each site's moderator agreement - privacy policy linked to stack overflow page instead of the site's own page [duplicate]
On every Stack Exchange site except Stack Overflow, in the Moderator Agreement (<sitename.com>/legal/moderator-agreement) page's The agreement section contains two links.
The first link is ...
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Misleading header "Information from Third Parties" in privacy policy
The following section is in the SE privacy policy:
Information from Third Parties
We may share personal information with third parties who provide
services to Stack Overflow, such as payment ...
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What privacy expectations are moderators who gain privileges by being SE employees subject to?
The moderator agreement, located at https://meta.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement, has the following text at the bottom:
I acknowledge and agree that I am an independent volunteer ...
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To refuse arbitration, give us your name and address
To opt out of mandatory arbitration and retain the right to participate in a class action, the terms of service state:
Your written notification must be mailed to us at Stack Overflow, Attn: Legal ...
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Will Stack Exchange respect EU's "right to be forgotten"?
If a citizen of EU would request all his questions and answers to be deleted from all Stack Exchange sites, would that request be carried out?
I'm not just talking about account deletion, where ...
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Stack Exchange Privacy Policy Update
As you all know, once in a while we have to update our Privacy Policy. Now is one of those times.
Here's what's different with today's update:
Safe Harbor has been replaced by the EU-US Privacy ...
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Stack Exchange should review and document their data retention policies
Recently, Stack Overflow posted a blog post about their Providence system (see also a 2015 blog post by Kevin Montrose about this same subject). This is related to the Personalized Prediction Data.
It ...
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Privacy policy of European users? Safe Harbor is down
I was reading the Privacy Policy and I must note that paragraph:
Safe Harbor Overview
We have chosen to comply with the principles of the Safe Harbor Framework developed by the U.S. Department of ...
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How does the Community Moderator model fit in with the TOS/Privacy/Content License Policies?
I have been banned for a month from the only SE site I really use. I do contest it, as do most I suppose, but that's not what this question is about. If curious see my profile.
Instead, while ...
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Remove apparent agent/not-an-agent contradiction regarding community (♦) moderators in privacy policy and mod agreement
Too Lawyerly; Didn't Read: Mods are explicitly not agents of SE, and no one but an agent is supposed to access the private info mods do access.
The moderator agreement on each site says (emphasis ...
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Does Stack Exchange report on the numbers of requests and orders it receives from law enforcement agencies?
Does Stack Exchange report on the numbers of requests and orders it receives from law enforcement agencies, as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo do?
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Stack Exchange has a new, clearer, stricter privacy policy
It's here.
Key changes include that it's now:
Actually readable by human non-lawyers
Clearer and more specific about how we handle your private information
Compliant with the stricter EU and Swiss ...
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