Choosing the right router requires understanding its privacy policy, which can often be confusing or misleading. Many router manufacturers provide complex privacy policies that complicate understanding how data is collected and used. Despite having experience with various routers, this article highlights the challenges in comprehending the long and convoluted language often present in these policies. Experts, like Bennett Cyphers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, emphasize that these policies do not guarantee user safety, as they ambiguously outline data collection practices.
All a privacy policy can really do is tell you with some confidence that something bad is not going to happen, but it won't tell you if something bad is going to happen.
Often, what you'll see is language that says, 'we collect X, Y and Z data, and we might share it with our business partners, and we may share it for any of these seven different reasons', and all of them are very vague.
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