The world is increasingly talking about privacy these days. But when people try to read the actual privacy policies of major social networking sites, they often must do so in English.
Facebook’s translation posture is particularly poor, as explained in a new paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, accepted at an upcoming privacy conference in France:
“Facebook includes 67 contemporary languages other than English, yet much of the site’s privacy-critical text is only partially, or not at all, translated … Facebook’s Privacy Policy is fully translated for only 10 languages, and partially translated for 26 languages. For 31 languages, including some of the world’s most widely spoken, such as Hindi and Russian, none of the privacy policy is translated.”
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