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Medium's Privacy Policy detected a change on July 15, 2026 involving minor formatting adjustments and the addition of subscription-related interface language ('Subscribe', 'Remember me for faster sign in'). The substantive privacy language regarding legitimate interests and data collection practices remains unchanged. The operational effect is the addition of UI prompts rather than a modification to privacy rights or data handling.

Medium's Privacy Policy was detected to have changed on July 14, 2026. The policy removed a sentence about email subscription preferences and modified two sentences in sections describing the feature's legitimate interest basis. The operative change involves how Medium now frames its explanation for offering the feature to connect users with people they know and support freedom of expression.

Medium's Privacy Policy was updated on July 13, 2026 with minor formatting and structural changes. The update added navigation elements and a subscription prompt at the top of the policy document, and reorganized the presentation of the document's header information. No material changes to substantive privacy protections, data collection practices, or user rights were detected in the change.

Medium removed a subscription call-to-action from its privacy policy and replaced it with an explanation of the legitimate interests basis for a feature that helps users connect with people they know. The removed language included 'Subscribe', 'Remember me for faster sign in', and originally accompanied the same legitimate interests justification. The updated policy now leads with the legitimate interests rationale without the subscription prompt.

Medium's privacy policy metadata changed on July 7, 2026, with a minor edit to the document share count displayed in the policy header. The share count increased from 20 to 21, indicating one additional user shared the policy document. This is a formatting or metadata update with no operational change to the privacy terms themselves.

The detected change in Medium's Privacy Policy on July 5, 2026 involves a minor modification to metadata: the share count displayed with the policy increased from 19 to 20. This appears to be a tracking or engagement metric update rather than a substantive policy revision. No changes to actual privacy terms, data practices, user rights, or operational procedures were identified.

The detected change is a single character modification in the read count display within the policy header metadata, changing from '18' to '19' reads. This appears to be a routine update to the article engagement metric and does not reflect any substantive revision to Medium's privacy policy terms, practices, or disclosures.

Medium's Privacy Policy was updated on July 3, 2026 with a minor formatting change to the policy header. The document now displays "Top highlight" and engagement metrics (53K, 18) in the introductory section. This appears to be a presentation or platform update rather than a substantive change to privacy terms or data practices.

Medium updated its privacy policy on June 19, 2026 to specify that vendors and service providers may receive personal information including content you submitted or posted, and to clarify that data sharing extends to training, testing, and improving machine learning models. The policy also added an explicit statement that Medium and these third parties may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata. This expands the stated scope of data sharing beyond infrastructure and service support to include AI model development.

Medium's privacy policy was updated on June 6, 2026 to add engagement metrics (53K views, 13 responses) to the policy document header. The change is purely editorial and adds visible article engagement statistics to the document display. No substantive changes to privacy rights, data collection practices, or consumer obligations were made.

Medium updated its Privacy Policy on May 18, 2026 to add detailed disclosure about its address book contact feature. The new language explains that when users opt in to this feature, Medium converts contact names and email addresses into encrypted, non-reversible identifiers to match against its member database. Medium does not store names or emails in plain text, deletes identifiers for non-members immediately, and deletes all encrypted identifiers within 30 days. The policy also reorganized its personal information collection disclosure, though the categories themselves (identifiers, commercial information, internet activity, inferences) remain unchanged.

Medium's privacy policy was updated on April 26, 2026, but the changes appear to be primarily formatting and structural rather than substantive. The document added a sentence reiterating the categories of personal information Medium collects (identifiers, commercial information, internet activity, and inferences) and made minor edits to navigation text. The effective date of the policy remains March 24, 2022, and no new data collection practices or rights changes were introduced.