Recently a large part of a lawsuit brought against Sony was thrown out because they had stated that their security is 100% when it comes to protecting data.
*blink*
Here is the first iteration I’ve seen so far where another company has adopted this approach. Not sure if this is entirely new but, I noticed it this morning when prompted to accept the update.
From the Netflix privacy policy:
Netflix takes information security very seriously and uses reasonable administrative, technical, physical and managerial measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. For example, we utilize Secure Sockets Layering, an industry-standard protocol for certain of your transmissions to us, in order to encrypt certain personal information that you send to us through the registration and sign up process.
Unfortunately, no security system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information and cannot assume liability for improper access to it. By using our service, including our website and user interfaces, or providing information to us through any means, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Netflix service.
So, yeah, ./throw-hands-in-the-air
Has anyone else seen this in other privacy policies?
UPDATE: I stand corrected. Thanks to Scotty Muse, I now know that this little nugget has been in their policy since 2010 at least. Link
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