More privacy icons efforts

Hello all,

I ran into this site today:

http://privicons.org/

It's an effort to standardize ASCII based icons for specifying how the
privacy of an e-mail should be treated by the recipient(s), codifying
wishes such as "Confidential", "Don't print", "Burn after reading" etc.
The idea is that any e-mail client can display the icons (as they're
ASCII) and supporting email clients can give an extra visual hint or
even disable print functionality (or at least give a confirmation "Do
you really want to print this?").

This particular effort is targeted at electronic messaging but the site
also has a "Background" section which brings together many other
"Privacy icons" efforts, including Aza Raskin's proposed set of privacy
icons. If people feel like continuing the effort of standardizing
privacy icons for website this would be a great place to read what
others have thought and said about the subject.

Regards,

Jens

Received on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 07:43:49 UTC