When I read xeven’s post, I thought he was referring to Babypips’ privacy policy – i.e., this one
https://www.babypips.com/privacy
JoshRSA obviously thought he was referring to a broker’s privacy policy – which is a different issue altogether.
So, I guess we have to ask xeven: Whose privacy policy were you referring to?
In general, the Terms and Conditions and the Terms of Use which we all have to agree to, in order to access certain websites, or use certain apps, are One-Sided Agreements written to protect and indemnify the websites and the creators of the apps – and to deny to us, the users, any rights or recourse whatsoever.
Those documents are typically so long, and so mind-numbingly legalistic, that most of us don’t even read them. When was the last time you read all that fine-print in order to be able to click the button to upgrade your antivirus app, or your Java app?
If you’re like me, you just click the button that says “I have read and accept the Terms of Use”, and you move on. What nasty little traps and pitfalls do we routinely and unwittingly expose ourselves to?
I make the assumption that everyone I deal with is spying on me, and trying to collect information that I would never offer up voluntarily.
And I make that assuption about Babypips, as well as every broker I have dealt with.
I use the Epic Privacy Browser for almost everything I do online. And, every time I open a new tab, Epic tells me how many “tracking attempts” it has blocked. Numbers like 150 or 200 are not uncommon. But still, I assume that I am being watched. To assume anything less would be stupid, in my opinion.
And I assume that Google is second only to the National Security Agency in collecting, saving, and using for their own purposes, information about me.
The NSA – for those of you not in the U.S., who may not be familiar with their methods – captures every telephone conversation, the text of every email, and every computer search of every American – and, possibly, of much of the rest of the world, as well – every day.
There’s a reason that there are 14 acres of computer servers buried beneath the NSA’s headquarters building on the Fort Meade army base in Maryland, and a much larger facility somewhere in Utah.
Just because I’m paranoid, that doesn’t mean they aren’t spying on me.
