RE: indicating 'private browsing mode' over the net (was Re: Super Cookies in Privacy Browsing mode)

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> Interesting mix of norms and tech -- and yes, a different privacy threat
> model from the one many of us are accustomed to considering. Here, we're
> trusting the server to share our interests and want to help us enforce
> the contextual boundaries we choose, even if its knowledge could span
> those boundaries.
> 
> This model is a better match with the Web Origin security model -- where
> an origin site is presumed to have control of the web application
> security, and the end-user must choose to trust the origin (with limited
> user-side overrides) or not visit the site.
> 
> I wonder what sorts of feedback could help to reinforce to end-users
> that their trust was in fact merited.
> 
> --Wendy
> 


It would have to include all the servers being accessed, third-parties also. I think David's header would be seen all of them, and it would only take one to ignore the contextual boundaries, decide to combine multiple personas with other data in a PII keyed database, then broadcast it to the world (and UA based UUIDs are far more reliably user-identifying than IP addresses which are usually ephemeral and non-unique). 

Maybe there should be an implicit web of trust that covers all the servers receiving user specific data on a page, where they all commit to a common declared level of privacy and security. The browser could then have UI to communicate that.

WebID could be used to identify all the parties (not just origins), and a manifest could define the trust relationship.

Mike


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Received on Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:11:08 UTC