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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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In the data request page, what does the "Object to Processing" request type do?
Following my earlier, still unanswered question "In the data request page, what does the "Do not sell my information" request type do?" I noticed that the aforementioned page ...
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In the data request page, what does the "Do not sell my information" request type do?
The recent "Upcoming privacy updates: removal of the Activity data section and Google conversion pixel deprecation" communication made me realize that the Data Request submit page includes &...
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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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