PMS Relief: Privacy Policies to Avoid

Most any of you out there involved in an IT project has, at this poind, had to deal with any number of the dreaded “Private information” discussions- what are you doing to protect user data?  How do you protect privately identifiable information?  If you assign users a user id so you can tell them apart without having to use their personally identifiable data, don’t you just create more personally identifiable data?!?

All of this leads to a wide number of headaches, not the least of which is the ubiquitous Privacy Policy.  There’s a lot of things you can say in the Privacy Policy of your apps to reassure people.  Thanks to bbspot, here’s a list of 11 things you shouldn’t say.  Enjoy!

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About the Author

This blog is written by me, Stacey Douglas, an analyst, project manager, systems designer and executive in the software industry. You can learn more about me at my website, http://www.staceydouglas.com.