Dictionary

privacy policy en · NOUN

Etymology

From privacy + policy.

Meanings

1. A statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization, particularly where it concerns private information.
   • In January, viral posts – ironically, widely spread on WhatsApp – claimed the privacy policy gave the service the right to read users’ messages and hand the information over to its parent company, Facebook. 2021 February 22, Alex Hern, “WhatsApp to try again to change privacy policy in mid-May”, in The Guardian:
   • Of those apps without privacy policies, 76 percent shared sensitive information with third parties, and of those with privacy policies, 79 percent shared data while only about half admitted doing so in their published disclosures. In other words, privacy policies are more aptly referred to as surveillance policies, and that is what I suggest we call them. 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

Forms

Hypernyms

policy

Relateds

CPO · data protection · public policy · GDPR · privacy seal

Translations (25)

tl patakaran sa pagkapribado (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · cmn 隱私權原則 /隐私权原则 (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · nl privacybeleid (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · nb personvernerklæring (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ka კონფიდენციალურობის პოლიტიკა (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · pt política de privacidade (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · de Datenschutzerklärung (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ka კონფიდენციალურობის დებულება (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ml സ്വകാര്യതാനയം (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · fi tietosuojaseloste (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · sw sera ya faragha (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ar سياسة الخصوصية (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · es política de privacidad (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · cmn 隱私政策 /隐私政策 (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · fi tietosuojakäytäntö (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ja プライバシーポリシー (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · fi yksityisyyskäytäntö (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · de Datenschutzrichtlinie (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ru политика конфиденциальности (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · cmn 隱私策略 /隐私策略 (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · sv integritetspolicy (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · fr politique de confidentialité (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · ka კონფიდენციალობის დებულება (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · da privatlivspolitik (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users) · is persónuverndarstefna (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users)