Re: oo.apple.com

I have a suggestion.

What is required is an open standard for notices online so that  
signalling of tracking and other policies can always be discoverable,  
accessible technically.  An application (or in this case Apple Iphone)  
could then always link via a standard in notice to a common place and  
location for layered notices to  any one application, service,  
Enterprise and perhaps with some significant collaboration how they  
apply in context.

Without an open standard in notice,  signalling infrastructure is  
missing so that an opt-out feature (static consent model) has no way  
to verify or modify policy controls independently.  At this time, all  
of the policies and notices are ad-hoc, un-standardised which means  
that are not useful in comparison from service to service.  In fact  
without a standard in notice, there is no simple way for people to see  
what kind of control they have over information when interacting  
online.   At any one time a person maybe subject to many policies from  
network to website, banks, email providers etc.  All of which may have  
different technical, legal, social, and political ramifications.

A standard in notice would provide a way for notice to be viewed on  
aggregate for a clear and dynamic picture of policy.  Which I would  
hypothesise to dramatically simplify accessibility to information and  
internationalisation. I wonder if supporting an open notice standard  
is something the W3C can do?

Mark


On 21 Apr 2011, at 09:51, Rigo Wenning wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just saw https://oo.apple.com/
>
> The description is here:
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
>
> From the background of Apple's latest geolocation feature on iOS4, the
> interesting question is whether the opt out would also stop all those
> features. Or is it just that you still get targeted but they don't  
> shoot with
> ads at you anymore.
>
> Anyone have a clue?
>
> Rigo
>

Received on Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:38:20 UTC