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Personal information is shared with third parties beyond Medium itself, expanding the number of entities that hold and can act on users' data.
The updated policy states that Medium and its vendors may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata. Data sharing now explicitly includes information you submitted or posted through the service, extending beyond infrastructure support to machine learning model training and improvement. The policy does not indicate an opt-out mechanism or granular user control over this specific use of content.
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We will disclose personal information to companies that help us run our business to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, deception, illegal activity, misuse of Adobe Services and Software, and security or technical issues.
We also require these service providers to protect your personal information to at least the same standards that we do.
We disclose information about you to our vendors (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf.
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Personal information is shared with third parties beyond Medium itself, expanding the number of entities that hold and can act on users' data.
Your personal information is shared with outside vendors, service providers, and consultants when they need it to provide services to Medium.
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