Medium removed a call-to-action encouraging newsletter sign-up and replaced it with a disclosure statement listing the categories of personal information collected in the preceding 12 months, identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences. This change substitutes a user engagement message with a privacy-related data collection statement.
The updated policy now explicitly discloses the categories of personal information Medium collected in the preceding 12 months, identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences. This disclosure appears in place of a newsletter sign-up prompt, shifting the policy page from marketing outreach to transparency disclosure. This change does not alter what data Medium collects; it changes where and how that collection is described in the policy document.
The updated policy now includes an explicit disclosure of personal information categories collected in the preceding 12 months, a transparency requirement under California privacy law and similar regimes. This change replaces a marketing message with a data governance disclosure, enhancing clarity about what information Medium collects, though the actual collection practices remain unchanged.
Updated policy now explicitly states that Medium collected identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences in the preceding 12 months
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Medium replaced a newsletter sign-up call-to-action with an explicit 12-month data collection disclosure in its privacy policy. This change appears to respond to privacy disclosure obligations, particularly those required under California privacy law and similar regimes, which mandate disclosure of personal information categories collected in the preceding 12 months. The change is primarily editorial and disclosure-focused. No new data collection is introduced; the change reorganizes how existing collection is presented in the policy document. For organizations using Medium to serve customers, this does not materially affect vendor relationships or compliance obligations.
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