“Your privacy is very important to us”

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Kirsten

That just struck my funnybone.

“Your privacy is very important to us. Now do tell us all about yourself.”

LOL

(Okay, okay, maybe you had to be there!)

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2 Responses to “Your privacy is very important to us”

  1. Duke of Earle says:
    March 11, 2007 at 8:20 am

    I get it! Your private information is important to them, but what they DO with that information is important only to YOU.

    Something like that?

    Or maybe (just my interpretation here): “If we say something that SOUNDS good to you with only a thin implication of a promise(?) but no real commitment to any action or inaction on our part, then will you give us what we want?”

    Oooo. Cynical? Yup.

    John

  2. Kirsten says:
    March 11, 2007 at 8:55 am

    If my “privacy” was really important to “them,” they would by definition tell me they don’t need to know anything about me, right?

    It’s Internet double-speak. It’s not my privacy that’s important to them. What’s important to them is that they have my information in their database. What “your privacy is important to us” really means is “we know you’ll get mad if we are too blatant in how we exploit your information, so we promise to be somewhat reasonable about it.”

    It’s got nothing whatsoever to do with privacy, really.

    :-)