Rationale for Decisions made in Privacy Policy

I chose to reinvent Pinterest’s privacy policy based on Beeban Kidron’s 5rights and my own personal preferences (Anderson, 2017). I wanted to ensure that there was no way for the site to collect or share data without its users allowing it to do so and to allow users to monitor what was being collected and shared. The key idea here was choice and consent. I decided to do away completely with “recommendations”. Although seemingly harmless, recommendations require the site to monitor its users’ activity. It is also a way to keep users on the site. I liked much of Pinterest’s existing Privacy Policy and used its user friendly format and left elements of it unchanged. I also included their entire policy under the subtitle “Residents of the EEA” as I thought this may be a legal requirement.

Anderson, J. (January 6th 2017). A Lawyer Rewrote Instagram’s Privacy Policy So Kids and Parents Can Have a Meaningful Talk About Privacy, Quartz. Retrieved April 24^th, 2020 from  https://qz.com/878790/a-lawyer-rewrote-instagrams-terms-of-service-for-kids-now-you-can-understand-all-of-the-private-data-you-and-your-teen-are-giving-up-to-social-media/