Not an attempt to answer Ian's question, just an observation. In my job, I get to deal with a lot of spam. One thing I've noticed recently is how many of the linked websites contain privacy policies. Whilst these mostly relate to the shipping of dubious goods in unmarked brown envelopes, they also cover pretty standard privacy statement ground as well. Can these spammers really also be asking us to believe they are conscientious privacy pioneers? I fear not and that the policies aren't worth diddly - and there is simply insufficient comeback. The FTC may have penalised Gateway Learning (I think?) recently, as a test of its powers maybe, but that's just the tip of a really really big iceberg.
Eeyore-like gloom.
S
Ian Welton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Where a web site publishes a privacy policy which does not reflect the
actual state of affairs,
i.e.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/privacy-statement-20000612
"Logged information is kept indefinitely as admistrative and research
material; it is not disclosed outside of W3C host site personnel."
Clearly contains an oversight in that disclosure would take place within the
remit of the host countries legal arrangements. Yet all visitors to the
site may not always be aware of all of those localised legal arrangements or
countries management culture.
If the site were were in Europe, what recourse, if any, would be available
to the ICO should they receive a complaint?
Ian W
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