Privacy Policy Changelog
The Free Software Foundation updated its privacy policy on May 24, 2018, to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and improve transparency. Although not based in the EU, the organization supports stronger privacy protections for its members and users. The changes include new sections, clarified language, and updates to data handling practices.
- ▪The Free Software Foundation updated its privacy policy to comply with GDPR on May 24, 2018.
- ▪The update added sections on public information and GDPR, and removed unverifiable claims about data protection guarantees.
- ▪Changes were made to cookie information, opt-out mechanisms, contact details, and language around data sharing with contracted services.
- ▪The policy now uses 'member list' instead of 'customer list' and consistently lists [email protected] as the contact email.
- ▪The organization acknowledged it may need to modify previously collected data to comply with legal requirements like GDPR.
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| Original publisher | Fsf |
| Canonical URL | https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy/privacy-policy-changelog |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 07:25:46 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T07:33:59.097Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T07:33:59.097Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | tKbTyMFPD88X |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Privacy Policy Changelog by Free Software Foundation Contributions — Published on May 24, 2018 07:32 PM v1.1 On May 24, 2018, we updated our privacy policy, to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and make other improvements. While we are not based in the EU, we have many members and supporters who are, and we back the underlying goal of improving privacy protections. As an organization with a mission of protecting and advancing computer user freedom, we strive to go above and beyond what is required in this area. The previous policy can be found at https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy-v1.0.
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