Re: [patwg-charter] Ben Savage: Need to define Privacy (#6)

I agree with @npdoty and strongly favor having the charter only note that the intent is for features to be privacy preserving and that they provide appropriate privacy guarantees, as I suggest [here](https://github.com/patcg/patwg-charter/pull/20#issuecomment-1108839355).

We are most certainly going to want to identify and explore privacy threats, but I think that is appropriately done in the context of use-cases or proposals or documents dedicated to the subject, not the charter.

With respect to the more general question about defining privacy which prompted this issue, I suspect that will be a very contentious endeavor, because whether or not something is private tends to be very subjective and context specific. On the other hand, the notion of privacy seems rooted in in the sharing of information which is an objective function, so perhaps we would do better to focus on information flows and providing means of classifying and controlling them, rather than attempting to  discern which of them is privacy invasive.

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