Question the United Church privacy statement
https://www.united-church.ca/privacy-statement
as to the appropriateness of "javascript, cookies, and other tracking
codes are included in all pages on our websites for use with Google Analytics"
making us not much different than Microsoft or Google, and how "individual
traffic patterns will not be disclosed to any third party..." when
using Google Analytics.
If this were happening physically it would be called 'stalking', a criminal offence.
Appreciate the church is involved with evangelism, but question the means by which we evangelize when it adopts marketing practices which compromise privacy.
Or a spoof considering my Regional Council privacy policy
https://eoorc.ca/misc/privacy-policy/
A public washroom posted notice that activity within the stalls was monitored with wireless cameras and communicated over the internet to a secure location which blurred facial recognition removing personally identifiable information, and that if individuals using the facilities objected they could hang something over the camera while using the stall.
Problems were
- despite no "personally identifiable information" saved, the
use of cameras was unacceptable;
- people expected and assumed privacy;
- most people never read the notice and were unaware of the camera or of
hanging something over the camera;
- the raw information before facial recognition was blurred was potentially
available to anyone over the internet; and
- ignored that other means could be used to link the person with removed
personally identifiable information [the time stamp of security cameras
outside the washrooms would identify the person by their unblurred clothing
similar to the ip address saved by the cookie would trace to the ip address
of an email received from the person].
It's that "people expected and assumed privacy" and finding the church isn't that much different from the world we live in.....