I don't give much weight to promises made in TOS in general as it is at best a vague hint to your intentions. Sure, if you want to sell data, you can't promise to keep data safe but if you don't intend to do so, promising to keep it save has little weight. Hackers will exfiltrate what you store and even if you promise to not store access logs for more than a week ... the cost of not honoring that promise is way too low for me.
That said, TOS that can change unilaterally any second are not worth reading. The TOS apply to registered users? Send them notifications when you plan to change the TOS and if they don't sign off with their keys, terminate the service or do whatever disruptive that gets the user's attention long before you actually delete their data.
LeoWandersleb / Leo Wandersleb
npub1gm…78rf6
2025-04-21 20:48:38
in reply to nevent1q…qv0r
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2025-04-21 20:48:38Event JSON
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