Meanings
plural privacy policies
- lawA statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization, particularly where it concerns private information.
In January, viral posts – ironically, widely spread on WhatsApp – claimed the privacy policy gave the service the right to read users’ messages and hand the information over to its parent company, Facebook.
2021 February 22, Alex Hern, “WhatsApp to try again to change privacy policy in mid-May”, in The Guardian1 more example
Of those apps without privacy policies, 76 percent shared sensitive information with third parties, and of those with privacy policies, 79 percent shared data while only about half admitted doing so in their published disclosures. In other words, privacy policies are more aptly referred to as surveillance policies, and that is what I suggest we call them.
2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Origin
Translations
Arabic سياسة الخصوصية
- سياسة الخصوصيةstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Chinese Mandarin 隱私政策 /隐私政策, 隱私權原則 /隐私权原则
- 隱私政策 /隐私政策 (yǐnsī zhèngcè)statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
- 隱私權原則 /隐私权原则 (yǐnsīquán yuánzé)statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
- 隱私策略 /隐私策略 (yǐnsī cèlüè)statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Danish privatlivspolitik
- privatlivspolitikstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Dutch privacybeleid
- privacybeleidstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Finnish yksityisyyskäytäntö, tietosuojakäytäntö
- yksityisyyskäytäntöstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
- tietosuojakäytäntöstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
- tietosuojaselostestatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
French politique de confidentialité
- politique de confidentialitéstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
German Datenschutzrichtlinie, Datenschutzerklärung
- Datenschutzrichtliniestatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
- Datenschutzerklärungstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Icelandic persónuverndarstefna
- persónuverndarstefnastatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Japanese プライバシーポリシー
- プライバシーポリシー (puraibashī porishī)statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Norwegian Bokmål personvernerklæring
- personvernerklæringstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Portuguese política de privacidade
- política de privacidadestatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Russian политика конфиденциальности
- политика конфиденциальности (politika konfidencialʹnosti)statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Spanish política de privacidad
- política de privacidadstatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Swahili sera ya faragha
- sera ya faraghastatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Swedish integritetspolicy
- integritetspolicystatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Tagalog patakaran sa pagkapribado
- patakaran sa pagkapribadostatement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users
Cite this entry
privacy policy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privacy%20policy
“privacy policy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privacy%20policy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “privacy policy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privacy%20policy.
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