University of Texas Chase Bank Policy Review

Choose one of the following policies to review.

Walt Disney:

https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/current-privacy-policy

Links to an external site.

Chase Bank:

https://www.chase.com/content/dam/chase-ux/documents/digital/resources/online-privacy-policy.pd

Links to an external site.

Lyft:

https://www.lyft.com/privacyLinks to an external site.

Expected work:

You will need to carefully read the policy and flag the following:

1- Unethical practices

2- Inconsistencies

3- Parts of the policy you disagree with

After flagging the above points, write a short paragraph discussing the conclusion of what you found in the policy.

Use your personal opinion as well as standard policy practices to derive your opinions while discussing if you found the policy easy or difficult to read/comprehend.

2/15/23, 6:34 PM
Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. – The New York Times
Despite efforts like the General Data Protection Regulation to make
policies more accessible, there seems to be an intractable tradeoff
between a policy’s readability and length. Even policies that are
shorter and easier to read can be impenetrable, given the amount of
background knowledge required to understand how things like cookies
and IP addresses play a role in data collection.
“You’re confused into thinking these are there to inform users, as
opposed to protect companies,” said Albert Gidari, the consulting
director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
As data collection practices become more sophisticated (and invasive),
it’s unlikely that privacy policies will become any easier to
comprehend. And if states continue to draft their own data protection
laws, as California is doing with its Consumer Privacy Act, privacy
policies could balloon with location-specific addendums.
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According to Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at the Center
for Internet and Society, this doesn’t mean we should throw out
privacy policies entirely — we just need a fresh start.
“These are documents created by lawyers, for lawyers. They were
never created as a consumer tool,” Dr. King said. “What would we do if
we actually started over and did this from a human-centric point of
view, knowing what we know now about how humans process
information online?”
So what might a useful privacy policy look like?
Consumers don’t need a technical understanding of data collection
processes in order to protect their personal information. Instead of
explaining the excruciatingly complicated inner workings of the data
marketplace, privacy policies should help people decide how they want
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Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. – The New York Times
to present themselves online. We tend to go on the internet privately –
on our phones or at home – which gives the impression that our
activities are also private. But, often, we’re more visible than ever.
A good privacy policy would help users understand how exposed they
are: Something as simple as a list of companies that might purchase
and use your personal information could go a long way towards setting
a new bar for privacy-conscious behavior. For example, if you know
that your weather app is constantly tracking your whereabouts and
selling your location data as marketing research, you might want to
turn off your location services entirely, or find a new app.
Until we reshape privacy policies to meet our needs — or we find a
suitable replacement — it’s probably best to act with one rule in mind.
To be clear and concise: Someone’s always watching.
Kevin Litman-Navarro is a writer and data journalist.
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stories like this one. For more detail please see our privacy policy and our publisher’s
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