Disney respect

November 16, 2003 6:29 AM

newspeak from disney: we at the Walt Disney Internet Group are dedicated to protecting your privacy and handling any personal information we obtain from you with care and respect. How is your personally identifiable information used and shared? The Walt Disney Family of Companies may use your personally identifiable information in many ways, including sending you promotional materials, and sharing your information with third parties so that these third parties can send you promotional materials. [...]As another example of Operational Uses, we may share your personal information with the Walt Disney World © Resort telephone reservations center [...] The Walt Disney Family of Companies may share your personal information with companies that offer products and/or services under brand names of The Walt Disney Family of Companies. [...] use of personal information shared with them under this Privacy Policy is subject to the same opt-out rights (and limitations upon those rights)
posted by Tryptophan-5ht (9 comments total)

Disney is the bEAst.
posted by troutfishing at 7:23 AM on November 16, 2003

IMO, after two big-budget flicks based on Disneyland rides ("Pirates of the Carribean" and "The Haunted Mansion"), Disney must be stopped before they greenlight:
dum dum du-u-u-um...
"It's a Small World, The Movie".
posted by wendell at 7:58 AM on November 16, 2003

No, no wendell. "It's a Small World, The Musical".
And there's only one song...
posted by Stauf at 8:06 AM on November 16, 2003

Only someone with a pathological hatred of the Bush Administration would...no, wait a sec, that's not it...
posted by aramaic at 8:36 AM on November 16, 2003

And there's only one song...
endlessly repeating, over and over and over....."It's a world of laughter, a world of tears..." /slits wrists
posted by amberglow at 8:38 AM on November 16, 2003

Bye Amberglow, we hardly knew ya!
posted by billsaysthis at 10:07 AM on November 16, 2003

I'm not a big fan of Disney, but I don't see the big deal here. Sure, it's a looser privacy policy, but they do ask you to opt-in to it, right? And if you decline, they *say* they'll apply the old policy to your data. This doesn't seem as egregious as what other companies (like Yahoo) have done in the past.
posted by dougb at 10:33 AM on November 16, 2003

I'll be at the haunted mansion if you need me ; >
posted by amberglow at 11:09 AM on November 16, 2003

This doesn't seem as egregious as what other companies (like Yahoo) have done in the past.

well, then, that's ok.
posted by quonsar at 11:27 AM on November 16, 2003