BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 18 hours ago"We value your privacy" could both mean we care, or we monetize itmessage-squaremessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1237arrow-down12
arrow-up1235arrow-down1message-square"We value your privacy" could both mean we care, or we monetize itBeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 18 hours agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoIt literally only exists as a legal liability defense mechanism. It is legalese. ‘Value’ as a verb could mean in nearly any concievable context or form. It just means ‘is important to us in some unspecified way’… and then the actual specifics are in the ToS you probably don’t read.
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoPretty sure there is no law anyone has to use the wording “we value your privacy”. It’s more likely to be just something they put there to make more people consent to data processing.
It literally only exists as a legal liability defense mechanism.
It is legalese.
‘Value’ as a verb could mean in nearly any concievable context or form.
It just means ‘is important to us in some unspecified way’… and then the actual specifics are in the ToS you probably don’t read.
Pretty sure there is no law anyone has to use the wording “we value your privacy”. It’s more likely to be just something they put there to make more people consent to data processing.