http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html

tptacek · on Dec 3, 2009

Compare to: http://www.opendns.com/privacy/

Heh.

rimantas · on Dec 3, 2009

What's interesting, David links only to OpenDNS policy, but does not provide a link to Google's which would make an easier to compare…

sriramk · on Dec 3, 2009

Wow - OpenDNS's privavy policy is much worse than Google's!

chris100 · on Dec 3, 2009

Not to be paranoid, but where does it say that their privacy policy won't change?

Right now, the privacy policy looks great on the surface. They are launching a new product.

But you can't deny that Google's entire DNA is to extract monetizable information from huge amount of seemlingly unrelated raw data.

That's why you have to take their privacy policy with a grain of salt.

bm98 · on Dec 3, 2009

If Google deletes all of its personally-identifiable data within 48 hours, then the risk to current users of any future privacy policy change is small. The real problem is when a service collects -- and never purges -- data under the guise of one privacy policy, but leaves the door open to adopting a different privacy policy which could be retroactively applied to the data already collected. I'm no lawyer, but the OpenDNS privacy policy does appear to fall into that category: "Your continued use of our sites and services after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change." Right, and if I stop using the service when the policy changes, will my old data be automatically flagged so that it still falls under the old policy?

pyre · on Dec 4, 2009

  Privacy Policy Changes
  OpenDNS may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and
  in OpenDNS' sole discretion. OpenDNS encourages visitors to
  frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.
  If changes are made, notice will be given in the OpenDNS sites
  and the OpenDNS blog at http://blog.opendns.com/ and we *may* send
  an email to registered using to notify them of the change. Your
  continued use of our sites and services after any change in this
  Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

So you may have a notice pushed out to you, but you may not. If you use OpenDNS to make the DNS request to to view their blog to read the new privacy policy, technically you have already made use of their service under the new terms. Oops.

Edit: emphasis in the quote was mine