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> The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often.

I laugh.

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Yeah, are we supposed to run a cron job that periodically downloads the page and diffs it with the previous version?

Come to think of it, I smell a startup idea... Privacy Policy Monitoring as a Service...

I wholeheartedly invite you to create a workflow on stacktile.io that demonstrates how to do it! :-)

By the way, there are already services at least for automatic diffing: https://www.changedetection.com/ etc. (I don't know if this one is better than others, but this one has a memorable name; I have it pointed at one page, and get notifications from time to time, but never actually cared to dive in and check the diffs... :/ )

Hi, Dan from stacktile here.

thank you for pointing this out -- the above user is pointing out a provision in our Privacy Policy. Our privacy policy is very much a work in progress -- we're a small team that put this policy in place as a first attempt, although I know that's not a very good answer. I fully agree with you that that clause in particular is quite draconian.

I have brought this to our team's attention and we will be reviewing it as soon as we can (A.K.A. as soon as we're done dealing with the huge influx of new users from HN)

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