Re: simple, standardized privacy policy discovery

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Mark Lizar <info@smartspecies.com> wrote:

> This  is a great update on Notice discovery.
>
> I noticed in option 3 RFC - there is a note.
>
> Note that in the absence of clear legal obligations placed on an
>    entity, either through contract or law, the presence of a "privacy-
>    policy" link does not constitute a legally binding obligation on the
>    part of the service.  The linked resource can only be interpreted as
>    a description of the expected practice.
>
>
>
> I would disagree that there is an absence of clear legal obligation.
>

Actually, the quoted text seems like a tautology: in the absence of a legal
obligation, there is no legal obligation.   It seems better to say that it
is not the role of this document to say what legal obligations, if any,
might apply.