Twitter’s privacy policy can be an exercise in confusion and unfathomable jargon at the best of times, so the company has come up with a way to make it easier to understand. Twitter Data Dash is a 2D platformer that attempts to explain the “more complex parts” of the Twitter privacy policy, although we’re not entirely sure it succeeds.
The Twitter privacy policy explained with cats and dogs
Twitter Data Dash takes place in the streets of PrivaCity and your dog, Data, wants to go for a walk. The game offers prompts across a number of levels on practices that will keep him and his data safe, all while collecting bones for some unknown reason. At the end of each level is a pop up that tells player what Twitter is doing to keep their data safe. The first level teaches players how to avoid unwanted ads, while the second tells players they can control who sends them a DM on Twitter. There’s also a level about the precise location feature and another on avoiding trolls.
The theory sounds great, although the game could do more. According to Twitter, one of its aims is to explain “how you can take control of your experience on Twitter” and it did to some extent, although jumping over unwanted ads or taking another route aren’t options in the real world. However, it certainly didn’t “help you understand the more complex parts of our privacy policy“, like how Twitter collects data, how it is used to “make Twitter better”, or how affiliate services can have their own policies. In other words, you may still want to read that policy at some point.
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