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| author | Joe Carstairs <jcarstairs@scottlogic.com> | 2025-01-28 18:06:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Joe Carstairs <jcarstairs@scottlogic.com> | 2025-01-28 18:06:53 +0000 |
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diff --git a/website/src/content/blog/2024/10/tracking_pixels.md b/website/src/content/blog/2024/10/tracking_pixels.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb2e965 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/src/content/blog/2024/10/tracking_pixels.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: Tracking pixels +description: Concerning a notice in the privacy policy of an HR app +pubDate: 2024-04-10 +--- + +I recently made the mistake of reading the privacy policy of the HR app my +employer uses. Take this choice excerpt: + +> **Tracking Pixels** +> +> We may place tracking pixels in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). These +> pixels are used for analytics purposes, including to track statistical +> information around when an email sent to you is opened. + +Translation: + +> We reserve the right to know whether you have read our emails, how long you +> spent reading them, at what time and in what physical location you read them, +> and any other information we can get our hands on. We reserve the right to do +> this as soon as you open an email, without asking for your permission first, +> and ask for your forgiveness later. That is, if you ever find out: which you +> won't, because we also reserve the right to hide this information in a Privacy +> Policy which we know you won't read, and we design our data-harvesting monster +> to be completely undetectable to anyone except determined experts, on purpose. +> We reserve the right to leave this data lying unused in a data warehouse where +> someone might steal it, and we also reserve the right to use it, if we can +> think of something satisfactorily dastardly to do with it. On the bright side, +> we probably won't, so having your data leaked to hackers and fraudsters is +> probably the worst you have to worry about. Unless we sell your data to +> advertisers, or a ~black hole of stolen data~ Large Language Model. Oh yeah, +> we probably reserve the right to do that, too. We doubt anyone will ever check. |