Curiouser and Curiouser! on zinio-systems http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic zinio-systems Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb What are they trying to hide? Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:44:27 +0100 <P>From my inbox this morning:</P><FONT size=2> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>I am writing to bring you up to date on recent Zinio milestones, as well as to notify you about some changes we have made to our privacy policy to better serve you and to reflect our evolving business.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT> <P>As soon as I see the phrase &nbsp;<EM>to better serve you</EM>&nbsp; I am on my guard.&nbsp;&nbsp;If there is a&nbsp;better euphemism for &nbsp;<EM><FONT color=darkblue>you're about to get screwed</FONT></EM>&nbsp; I don't know what it is.</P> <P>In this case the company, <A href="http://www.zinio.com/">Zinio</A>, is changing it's privacy policy.&nbsp; They've sent me a nice email to tell me so and they kindly link to the old&nbsp;& new policies so I can try and guess what they've changed.&nbsp; Of course I'm happy to pour over two boring documents to make sure that it's still verboten sell my details to the cream of Nigeria.&nbsp; (As far as I can tell it is.)</P> <P>A clueful way to handle this would have been to create a page which shows the two policies side-by-side, highlighting the substantive changes.&nbsp; This would take only a minute or two too review and would be reassuring.&nbsp; Alas the clue was taken home for the weekend and hasn't been returned yet.</P> <P>Zinio:&nbsp; Clueless?&nbsp; Or, something to hide?</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001549.html