For NBCNews.com, a new website comes with new privacy standards

It is unlikely that many new consumers to read the fine print that comes with the rebranding of the splashy NBCNews.com to MSNBC.com. Data Protection The new website has been adopted in order to "align with NBC Universal standards in privacy," Chief Network Officer of digital, Vivian Schiller, told me. "When you go through it with a fine tooth comb, I do not think you will find it very different," she said. But there are some important points about the privacy policy changes, you need to know. I met up with our good friend Jeff Hermes, director of the Citizen Media Law Project to give at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a sense of political differences between the old and new. For one thing, NBC News has the ability of users that are not removed in targeted advertising. "Microsoft does not specifically about how you are not on such advertising," Hermes said. "They give you the opportunity to receive targeted advertising. Identify the particular third-party ad networks with which they work, and give you links to see whether these networks offer opt-out. This information is not included in the policy NBCNews.com . NBCNews.com has a clause saying you can send a request asking them to use the information they have collected about you, but this is not an opt-out. If you request that they stop using your information, large, but that only applies to information you provided before, and if you want to use your information, you must completely stop using the website. " Another important difference relates to changes to the privacy policy itself. Microsoft advises that if a change in its privacy policy, it will "notify you by prominently posting notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification." NBCNews.com not exclude that, but it does not make any specific promises. Political NBCNews.com: