“Get your privacy policy down to one page in a language that everybody understands"
And NO hypertext links. We know lawyers love matryoshka-style documents.
The Register caught up with AVG (and ex Mozilla) CEO Gary Kovacs at Mobile World Congress last week. AVG is talking up its Zen security product – a sort of mobile device management for the home – which Kovacs says is extending to cover Internet of Things (IoT). “You will be able to manage your wearables as well as the key …
and none of that "this document is subject to revision without notice; the version in effect can be found at http://now.we/ve.got.you.by.the.balls " shit that tries to conflate "contract" with "blind man's buff"
American lawyers may like long documents, but Solicitors do not like long documents. (or at least, the ones I work for and correspond with don't!) emails, letters and contracts are masterpieces of brevity which are ruthlessly pruned to the minimum size possible.
A document ten times the length has on average ten times the likelyhood of containing an exploitable error. As with coding, functions ten times the required length make finding errors ten times harder.
It also takes ten times longer to explain them to a customer, which is not desirable when you offer services on a fixed fee basis instead of an hourly rate.
Probably a good idea to change your own policy _before_ going public with this shit. AFAIK AVG's own policy is still a million miles long, and not an easy read. Combined with the fact they need every permission available on my andriod-phone to install, i remain sceptical, and continue to rely on myself to avoid malware. Also, KNOX got my back!