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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 15:52:26 JST 
Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
My GP clinic uses Manage My Health. About to log in and they say I need to accept their new privacy policy. So I just read their privacy policy (https://www.managemyhealth.co.nz/privacy-policy/), resulting in the following message from me to them:
Hi
I have some questions about your privacy policy.
In 3.e you say you use personal information for advertising.
As you must surely know, online advertising is a privacy nightmare because of widespread use of tracking technology and abuses by companies domiciled in places with poor privacy practices. Technologies such as browser fingerprinting mean that even with adblockers and refusing cookies, it is impossible to stop identity matching by (eg) Google, Facebook, and even less ethical companies.
Do you use 3rd party ad and tracking providers? If yes, then this is a deal-breaker for me in a medical service.
My concern is particularly aroused by reading this provision in conjunction with s4.1.a, where you say you may disclose personal information to a related company who may use it for the same purposes.
How do you define "related company?"
I look forward to hearing how your service does or does not use 3rd party tracking and advertising services so I can make an informed decision.
Thanks
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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 14:53:23 JST
Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
My SiL is trying to re-register as a teacher. The NZ Teachers Council has a form to fill out - and it's a PDF! SiL household is not exactly high income and she has an old laptop running Linux Mint. Predictably, the PDF looked a mess and she was highly stressed.
I fixed the situation by installing Okular, which works fine with PDF forms (why isn't Okular just standard with distributions these days?) but really. This is just the shittiest way to implement a business process. Even a Google Form would be better (and there are many better options than that).
Of course the Teachers Council is not going to do better because they don't have the staff, the budget or the incentives. And so the assumption that you have a recent device with a recent Windows or MacOS and/or family and friends for tech support is just baked in. I hate it.
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