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Oh, Disney
May. 24th, 2025 10:28 amThis came up on a friend's thread and I thought I'd mention it here.
Disney shares your data with EVERYBODY. Their privacy policy doesn't really do anything to protect your privacy. It's more of an invasion of privacy policy. I looked it up just now and found this nugget:
"We, certain service providers operating on our behalf, and third parties may collect information about your activity, or activity on devices associated with you, on our sites and applications and third-party sites and applications using tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels, tags, software development kits, application program interfaces, and Web beacons. We may collect information whether or not you are logged in or registered, and may associate this tracking data with your registration account (if you have one)."
In other words, the moment you visit a Disney-operated anything, they sell all your usage data with your name attached to it to anyone with a debit card.
You =can= opt out, but you have to opt out of each web site, account, or service individually. So you have to fill out a separate opt-out request for Disney+, Hulu, your amusement park account, the Disney park app, and so on. If you have a Disney app on your phone, it tracks everything you do all the time, even if you're not logged in.
They're very upfront about it, as long as you go look: https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/privacy-controls/online-tracking-and-advertising/
Disney is as bad as Meta and Google.
Disney shares your data with EVERYBODY. Their privacy policy doesn't really do anything to protect your privacy. It's more of an invasion of privacy policy. I looked it up just now and found this nugget:
"We, certain service providers operating on our behalf, and third parties may collect information about your activity, or activity on devices associated with you, on our sites and applications and third-party sites and applications using tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels, tags, software development kits, application program interfaces, and Web beacons. We may collect information whether or not you are logged in or registered, and may associate this tracking data with your registration account (if you have one)."
In other words, the moment you visit a Disney-operated anything, they sell all your usage data with your name attached to it to anyone with a debit card.
You =can= opt out, but you have to opt out of each web site, account, or service individually. So you have to fill out a separate opt-out request for Disney+, Hulu, your amusement park account, the Disney park app, and so on. If you have a Disney app on your phone, it tracks everything you do all the time, even if you're not logged in.
They're very upfront about it, as long as you go look: https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/privacy-controls/online-tracking-and-advertising/
Disney is as bad as Meta and Google.
