[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43875: Rename Privacy Policy to Privacy Notice

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#43875: Rename Privacy Policy to Privacy Notice
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 Reporter:  xkon         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr close   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:9 xkon]:
 > This is a good explanation between the difference of a policy vs notice
 imho.

 Heh, not so sure about that. The iapp.org website conveniently uses
 "Privacy Statement" :)

 Can you tell me how many privacy notices have you read in the last year?
 How many of them were 6-7 pages long? And how many privacy policies have
 you read?

 As @idea15 mentioned in #43435 this is a recent change to avoid "the
 Americanism of policies". However what it mostly does is confuse the users
 even more. I wouldn't mind changing this to Privacy Statement, or even
 Privacy Notice once any of these terms gain popularity and are easily
 recognized everywhere.

 Currently this seems to be a difference between US English and UK English
 terms. In any case "policy" is very commonly used in America to describe
 what we are adding to WP, and since the default language is `en_US` I
 don't see a good reason to change it.

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