As Twitter emerges from the long tunnel unto Elon Musk’s new leadership, the platform is rolling out a range of updates to ensure that all its projects are tied up ahead of the company’s next stage, regardless of whatever that might be.
Under New Management
Today, Twitter just launched an updated privacy policy, along with a redesigned privacy site, which also includes a new, interactive game that was designed to help users better understand their data and privacy options in the app.
As Twitter explains:
“It shouldn’t take a law degree to understand privacy policies, so we’ve rewritten ours to try and make it useful – emphasizing clear language and moving away from legal jargon. Beginning today, you can see the updates to our privacy policy and terms of service in the app via settings and on our redesigned privacy policy site.”
Based on this example, Twitter’s new privacy policy site includes simpler language, along with more specific pointers to relevant sections of its policies, helping users understand all the key elements. Twitter says that it has rewritten its policies ‘with less legalese’, while it has also split the policy display into three primary sections to make finding specific info easier. These sections are as follows: ‘Data Collection’, ‘Data Use’, and ‘Data Sharing’. To add, you can also download a PDF of the full privacy policy with a single button.
The most interesting element here seems to be the ‘Twitter Data Dash’ privacy education game, which was designed to take you through Twitter’s various policy elements via a fun and engaging 2D side-scrolling game. It kind of works, like a trimmed-down version of Super Mario, and the privacy pointers and insights aren’t really present or upfront enough to be a major element. Then again, Twitter merits credit simply for trying. Perhaps youngsters will have more patience and interest in such a game, which could help them better understand privacy options.
Though Twitter’s minimum age is 13, it’s still unclear how much use a feature like this would really see. In any case, Twitter is attempting to invigorate an already stale subject to improve digital literacy, ensuring more of its users understand their privacy and protection options, which is a positive step, regardless of if it catches on or not.
The Wrap
It’s hard to determine whether any of these changes will truly be effective in increasing user awareness of these elements – most people are happy just logging on and checking whatever’s new. What benefit these changes do bring is that if certain users do go about looking for pertinent information, the new format allows them to do such, along with a few other benefits. In the end, it’s still a valuable update.
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