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So is the moral of the story for a developer to make sure you have an updated privacy policy? If they would have updated the privacy policy on their product would they have been legally protected?


> So is the moral of the story for a developer to make sure you have an updated privacy policy?

Given that the original suit included claims that "Defendant never informed Plaintiff that it would monitor, collect, and transmit her Usage Information" that seems to be one potential moral.

> If they would have updated the privacy policy on their product would they have been legally protected?

Presumably only a case being decided at trial could determine that. But it's worth looking at the proposed settlement documents that outline the non-financial changes they agreed to in order to settle the case.


The issue there is you also have to be able to link a user agreeing to version X of privacy policy otherwise it doesn't do much good.




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