- From: Alissa Cooper <acooper@cdt.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:08:34 +0000
- To: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
- Cc: Paddy Byers <paddy.byers@gmail.com>, "SULLIVAN, BRYAN L (ATTCINW)" <BS3131@att.com>, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, W3C Device APIs and Policy WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
I agree, our focus should be on the declarative aspect. Alissa On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Frederick Hirsch wrote: > Lets say, for the sake of argument, that having privacy icons is a > great idea (it sounds like it would remove end-user confusion) > > How would this relate to the definition of Javascript APIs? I assume > it would be an indicator of a specifically chosen privacy policy, at > least in some key set of attributes. > > Thus I think I agree with Bryan that we are back to defining policy > appropriately and how to bind that to an instantiated API. > > Is this correct, or am I missing another aspect of the implications? > > regards, Frederick > > Frederick Hirsch > Nokia > > > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 2:56 PM, ext Alissa Cooper wrote: > >> >> On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Paddy Byers wrote: >> >>> You're thinking of something like the Creative Commons "license >>> deed" (for example [0]) ? >>> >>> Thanks - Paddy >>> >>> [0]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ >> >> >> The design space is pretty vast, and the question of what gets >> represented is obviously separate from the question of how it gets >> represented. The notion of compact privacy policies has been around >> at >> least since P3P if not before. There have also been a number of >> efforts to develop a set of privacy icons [0][1][2]. These can get >> quite prescriptive in what they can express, but that could be a >> benefit. On the far less complex end of the spectrum, apps could just >> be given a text field in which to declare a small snippet of their >> policies in human-readable form. If this kind of policy communication >> is something we decide to pursue, it's probably worth exploring the >> whole range of options. >> >> [0] http://identityproject.lse.ac.uk/mary.pdf >> [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Challenges/Privacy_Icons >> [2] http://asset.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/data-privacy-icons-v01.pdf >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >
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