Timeline for A Terms of Service update restricting companies that scrape your profile information without your permission
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| Mar 25, 2016 at 16:09 | history | edited | Patrick Hofman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2016 at 15:50 | comment | added | wythagoras | @PatrickHofman The official name is still Stack Exchange, Inc. It is just the brand name that changed from Stack Exchange to Stack Overflow. See: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270037/… | |
| Mar 25, 2016 at 6:02 | comment | added | user50049 | The actual change to the copy in the TOS is pretty minor (or, we're not rewriting it, adding a lot more too it, etc). That's what we wanted to convey there. The effects of the changes, however, make life much easier for us when it comes to dealing with these automatic programmer grocery stores that love to scrape your info. So in essence, the update is actually small (speaking only to size, not might, like mighty mouse) | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 22:44 | history | edited | user154510 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
how Markdown decided to un-indent that while still preserving the numbering was irritating, sorry
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| Mar 24, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | Yes. It seems something is minor. It might be in the total ToS, but to some people it is important. Calling it minor makes it sound less important. | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 21:09 | comment | added | Jaydles StaffMod | 4) "Minor" was intended to convey that this essentially has no impact on users rights, unless they're running a scrape & spam business. Didn't want it to feel like you've got to figure out what happens to you, since it's nothing for almost everyone. You think it's undercutting the importance of stopping the harassment, or am I not hearing you there? | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 21:06 | comment | added | Jaydles StaffMod | 3) This does NOT give us new rights to share more of your info than we had before. It simply makes it a violation to use some content without either our or your consent. But that doesn't give us the ability to grant consent in any way we couldn't before. And it has no bearing on non-public or sensitive info, which is still protected by the privacy policy. | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 21:03 | comment | added | Jaydles StaffMod | @PatrickHofman, 1) thanks for the kind words. Sometimes we learn slowly, but it's nice to confirm we're not too old to learn at all :)... | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:59 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | Removed that point though. | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:59 | history | edited | Patrick Hofman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:59 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | That is not how I read it. | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:56 | comment | added | Jeremy | There has never been a "Stack Overflow Inc.". There used to be a "Stack Overflow Internet Services, Inc.", and there is now a "Stack Exchange Inc.". Their primary customer-facing brand name has changed back to Stack Overflow, but the company name is still "Stack Exchange Inc.", as is made clear by the footer of ever page. (If this is changed, I'm sure their lawyers can do a replace-all in the TOS, but that hasn't happened yet.) | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:54 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | The official name StackOverflow Inc. That adds to the confusion. | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:54 | comment | added | Jeremy | re: 2: This is already 100% explicit. This is an amendment to the TOS, which already defines "Stack Exchange" as an alias of "Stack Exchange Inc.", which has been and AFAIK will remain the official company name. | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 20:30 | history | answered | Patrick Hofman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |