talking point

we don’t share personally identifiable information

We'll delete your name before we sell all your data.

Language that is common in privacy policies. The problem is that your data can still be identified even if it's anonymized, as we've seen over and over again.

Google

We don’t share information that personally identifies you with advertisers, such as your name or email, unless you ask us to. (source)

Facebook

We provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing, but we don't share information that personally identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us permission. (source)

Twitter

You control the personal data you share with us. We share or disclose non-personal data.(source)

We'll delete your name before we sell all your data.

Okay, fine. We'll also delete your address and your social security number, and just use your profile pic instead. And your detailed web history going back 10 years. Our lawyers told us that's chill.

#data privacy #sharing