Alert reader Wolf points out that—presumably due to a typo—Section 5 of the Safari Extension Gallery Submission Agreement currently reads, in part:
You hereby represent and warrant as follows:
[Your] extension does collect, use or disclose to any third party, user data or personal information without prior user consent.
In other words, those developers who have submitted extensions up to this point in time unintentionally promised that their extension(s) collect user information. Conveniently, Section 12 of the Agreement reads:
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Apple concerning the subject matter hereof, and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.
…so Apple can simply replace this version with an identical-but-for-the-inclusion-of-the-word-‘not’ version and be in the clear. At least, that’s my layman’s reading. Maybe while they’re making that change we can get an Oxford comma in there, too.
(Thanks, Wolf!)
UPDATE: Since 14th July, an updated version with the missing ‘not’ in place is available.
