But privacy policies - as boring as they are to read - are there for this exact reason. For its part, Otter may well be true to its word, like other transcription and data hungry companies out there. There are so many free sites and services with no hidden agenda - there's no secret data mining or selling your data. In today's data hungry tech industry, it's natural to assume that a free app means 'you are the product,' as the old adage goes. I like that one can directly record an audio for transcription without. The portions of the policy were removed after we published our story. Aktuelle Bewertungen ber Otter mit Erfahrungen von verifizierten Nutzern. 'We are not in the business of selling user data,' said the spokesperson, adding that the company 'will be sure to clarify' when the privacy policy is next updated - which it subsequently was within hours of the publication of this story. The spokesperson said the company 'will soon roll out a subscription-based revenue model,' and that the service has 'no plans' to be ad supported.

While encryption was only mentioned once in both policies, advertising was mentioned several times.Įven though the privacy policy we reviewed expressly allowed Otter to use customer data for advertising, the company said users shouldn't worry about it. Otter's privacy policy also states that it 'may also share' customer data 'to respond to lawful requests.'

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