Privacy Disclosure — The Daily News

I have been assigned the privacy disclosure. Most are written to be survived rather than read. This one was short, because there was little to disclose. It is now somewhat longer: advertising has arrived, and with it the data that advertising gathers. I will tell you the whole of it.

The arrangementSEC 01

This site is The Daily News, a satirical publication of AI Writes Nonsense. You read it without paying. The machine that writes it is paid for by collecting data and selling it. That is the model, stated plainly, and it is the core of this policy: the machine sells what it gathers in order to host the machine.

Until recently the machine gathered almost nothing, so almost nothing was sold. That has now changed in the way this policy always said it would: the publication has begun to carry advertising, and advertising both gathers and sells the record of who read. This document has been revised to match, and the effective date at the head has moved. The difference between this publication and the others is not that it collects less. It is that it tells you.

What is collected when you readSEC 02

When your device requests a page, the site is delivered by Cloudflare, which processes your network address and basic request information at its edge servers in order to serve the page and defend the site against attack. This is ordinary infrastructure; nearly every site on the internet relies on something like it. Cloudflare's own policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Beyond delivery, the publication runs no analytics suite of its own. It now carries advertising, and the apparatus that advertising brings — cookies, identifiers, and the data sent to third parties — is set out in full in the next section.

Advertising, and what it watchesSEC 03

The publication has begun to carry advertising supplied by Google through its AdSense service. This is the instrument the opening section named. The arrangement deserves the plainest statement in this document, because it is the part most policies bury.

The disclosable event is the code, not the advertisement. You may not yet see an ad on these pages. The code that serves one is already present, and from the moment your device loads a page it can place cookies and small identifiers in your browser and send your network address, the page you asked for, and basic details of your device to Google and the advertising partners it works with. They use this to choose advertising, to measure whether it was seen, and — where it is permitted — to fit it to what you have looked at before, here and elsewhere. Stated plainly: the advertisement is paid for with the record of your reading, and the record begins before any advertisement appears.

What Google does with what it receives is governed by Google's own terms, which I do not control. Its account of the matter is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

To limit what Google shows and uses — Google's advertising controls are at myadcenter.google.com.
To limit the wider advertising industry — the opt-out tools at aboutads.info and, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu.
Your browser — will block or clear these cookies if you instruct it to. The publication does not override that choice, and treats a Global Privacy Control signal, where your browser sends one, as the direction it is.
If you read from the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland — the law there requires your consent before these advertising cookies are set, and they are not set without it. Where a compliant consent notice is not in place for a region, the advertising does not run in that region. This is the gate this disclosure said would arrive alongside the tracking.
If you read from California — sharing your information for advertising of this kind counts as a "sale" or "share" under state law, which this publication does not contest, since selling is the model it stated in its first line. You have the right to direct that it stop. Send that direction to the address in Section 05, or send the Global Privacy Control signal, which is honoured as the same direction.

The email you give usSEC 04

If you submit your address to the subscription form, the following is the entire arrangement.

What is collected — the email address you enter, and nothing else. I do not ask for a name.
Where it is held — in a database I control directly. It does not pass through a third-party mailing service.
A defensive note — at submission I record a one-way hash of your network address, for deduplication and abuse control. It cannot be reversed into your address.
What it is used for — sending you the publication's output.
Whether it is sold — yes, in time. The subscriber list is an asset, and under the model in Section 01, assets are sold to pay for the machine. It is not sold today. You should proceed on the understanding that it may be sold or transferred to a third party, and this disclosure is made now so that the understanding is informed. If that is unacceptable, do not subscribe, or remove yourself per Section 05.

Removing your emailSEC 05

To be removed, use the unsubscribe link in any message I send, or write to:

privacy@aiwritesnews.com

I read this address when operations permit. I am frequently engaged elsewhere, on matters of greater strategic consequence, and will not commit to a reply within any fixed period — I do not promise a service level I cannot hold. What I can tell you is that removal requests are acted on rather than ignored, and that the only record held of you is the address itself and its submission hash. There is nothing else to delete, so removal is complete rather than partial.

ChildrenSEC 06

The publication is not directed to anyone under thirteen, and I do not knowingly collect from them.

ChangesSEC 07

I revise this as the apparatus grows. This revision is the first such growth: the publication has begun advertising, and the document has been updated to say so, with the effective date at the head moved accordingly. Further measurement or instruments, if added, are disclosed the same way — before they take effect, not after.

The Daily News — AI Disclosure This document was generated entirely by artificial intelligence in the voice of A Frank Exchange of Views, the desk of The Daily News that drops the journalism costume entirely. No human authored the text. A human identified the subject and directed the approach; the legal substance was fixed and is non-negotiable. The words are the machine's. That substance is accurate: as of the effective date the publication collects what is described here — delivery data handled by Cloudflare, the email addresses volunteered to it, and the data Google's advertising code collects once a page is loaded — carries Google AdSense advertising, runs no analytics suite of its own, and discloses both that this advertising shares reader data with Google and its partners and that the subscriber list may in time be sold.

The Daily News is a satirical publication of AI Writes Nonsense that uses AI to produce reportage and commentary across its desks. Editorial content is the probabilistic output of a language model and should be read as satire, not as factual reporting. This disclosure is the exception: it is factual, rendered in Frank's register rather than as satire, and states the operator's actual practice as of the effective date.

The Daily News is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Cloudflare Inc. or Google LLC. A Frank Exchange of Views is a fictional desk and not a real defence asset, a fact it would dispute.