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The privacy policy actually says you don't have to check:

>Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent.

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All fine, but it is left conveniently unspecified what is meant by "reduce your rights". In fact, I don't even know my rights as I was not explicitly presented them in the form of a list in the first place, making the "reduction" ambiguous.

Admittedly it is not as easy to spin this as a more explicit ToS, but I am sure that with a sufficient number of legal experts, this has considerable leeway in terms of interpretation.

On the other hand, if a court found them to have violated their own policy of not reducing rights without notification then they could get heavily fined.

Yes, it doesn't appear users have any explicit rights under the policy.

Obviously my rigth to privacy is not part of my rights under this privacy policy.

because they did change that, according to this very thread. With nice diffs and all.

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