And, like many "free" apps, it also gathers other data.
Posted on 07/19/2019 5:17:15 AM PDT by 3161J410
Or supreme court decisions? (snicker snicker)
And, like many "free" apps, it also gathers other data.
He warned that the whole idea of “cookies” HAD TO BE with the default option as opt-out, with the requirement “cookies” REQUIRED the user’s positive response to “opt-in” and even then had to include the mandate that opt-in did not extend to ANYONE other than the website the user was using & whatever info was gained by the cookies by that website could not be shared with any other website AGAIN without the user’s positive consent with each and every instance.
He warned that all these things needed to be the default that all websites had to adhere to. He warned that the use of “cookies” was just the beginning of giving up our privacy and our personal information without our positive agreement. He warned that the opposite philosophy of what he recommended was how cookies were being modeled and used and that would spread to EVERYTHING else the Internet did, unless the ideas were checked to start with.
He admitted that he did not know the future ways in which the Internet companies would confiscate our privacy and our personal information, but those means did not matter as much as the acceptance of the philosophy behind the models already being put to use. He said, and I knew he was right, that much of what was being done and advocated was said to be essential and necessary for the commercial development of the Internet. He said, and I agreed, that that was a lie. It may have been necessary for the business model some wanted to develop, for their own sake, but that never did mean that no other model could serve us well.
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