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How Facebook, Google&Co data fishing
If Amazon, Facebook and other Online companies logs, must the privacy policy agree. And the are not only vague, but grant more rights than is necessary.
Most Internet companies collect, according to a report by the Stiftung Warentest more data about their users than is actually needed. An examination of the privacy policies of 16 Internet companies have shown that some partly far-reaching rights recognised, it says in the March issue of the magazine “Test”. The majority of companies inform their customers only with “unclear, vague wording of” up to 45 pages long privacy policies.
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Some privacy policies resembled more of a carte Blanche to Collect and Store data, criticize the consumer advocates. The music streaming service Spotify to allow, for example, the right to provide user data to service providers in Brazil, the USA or Singapore to transfer, in which the customers “less rights in relation to their personal data”.
Microsoft, in turn, inform the customers that the use of its services, any data to be linked, reported “Test”. With the help of the data of the E-Mail account Outlook, the Internettelefondienst Skype, search engine Bing and the Clouddienstes OneDrive could Microsoft a extensive user profile. Also get information on the group’s users, that he is at online gaming and the Xbox Chat and the conversations the player to randomly monitor.
Worth money
“Data and user profiles are considered to be the Gold of the Internet. They are worth money,” write the Berlin testers. The consumer paid the often free services with their data. With more targeted advertising on such data and create user profiles based, you can earn a lot of money.” Alone in the last quarter of 2015 made Google more than $ 19 billion in sales,” write the Tester. Google-the parent Alphabet is currently considered the most valuable company in the world.
Really meaningful from a consumer perspective is, according to “testing” in any of the 16 audited data privacy policies. Only around a third of the Internet companies to clarify the customer reasonably meaningful, including GMX, Zalando, Maxdome and Napster and Otto. Most of the documents made the reader “not smarter”, including the texts of Internetriesen such as Apple and Google.
What are the companies with the collected, highly personal information like age, gender, Name, location, and usage habits to do, swamped for customers, “often in the fog verschwurbelter legal formulations”, it says in the magazine “Test”. Such as instructions for processing data from a consumer perspective should look like, was on the National IT-summit 2015 presented on the Website of the Federal Ministry of justice and consumer protection.
Incomplete Listings
Which and how much personal data the provider collects depends on the service. He should be as much as necessary but as little as possible, save. Shippers such as Amazon and Otto, packages can only deliver if the delivery address is know. Gender or age of the customer are irrelevant. The age, however, need especially Video Streaming services such as Maxdome, Netflix and Netflix; not all movies are g-rated.
What data he collects, the provider should be precise to list. “The power Maxdome quite well,” write the Tester. In other documents was discovered by the Tester on the other hand, vague phrases and incomplete lists. Popular is also the exchange of information, such as payment problems between subsidiaries of a service. For example, an Otto customer is in default of payment, Otto.de-companies such as Baur Versand or SportScheck. This may lead to that the customer will then be approximately at Otto and SportScheck, not more on account can buy. The Internetkaufhaus Amazon informs in a sentence of more than 130 words in length, that, among other things, information from with Amazon affiliates, such as Alexa Internet, processed.
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