GDPR

I’ve previously written about the difficulties of keeping up to date with the current privacy policies of products one is using. Not only are they updated regularly, they are also long and complex. Here Mozilla, the non profit organisation behind Firefox among other things, have created Privacy not Included to help. Privacy not included is a tool where experts investigates the privacy of different products, and gives clear information both what is said in the policy and what data it collects (permissions, sensors on the device etc.). In addition to pure privacy related analysis, information about the basic security of the product as well as the use of AI is investigated. Even though Privacy not Included does not contain all products around the world, there are lots of them and some of the results are surprising. Enough so to get me to get stuck just reading the analysis while reading up for this post. And if there is a product missing that you would love to see investigated, there is an easy form to request products to be analysed in the future. ...

I’ve gotten a bit curious about what data different companies are collecting about me. This have led to a couple of GDPR requests to companies to provide the data so I can analyse it. In this post I will share my thoughts about the content of the report I got from Spotify, and the process of fetching the data. The Download Process The process to get access to your data is quite straight forward. There are clear descriptions on how to download your data under privacy settings, where you can request a download. The collection process takes a while and an email is sent when your data is ready to be downloaded. In the email there are a link that allows you to download a zip archive containing your information. ...