- From: François Légaré <flegare@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 21:48:02 -0400
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: public-privacy@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAGhQHrgrVfqr7mEyxVzR_FfWv=R08KpN_sCVq5UjXvVPsrFFCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi David, Any reason the context awareness was not retained or didn't lead to change in the browser interpretation? Regards, Francois On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:21 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > Hi > > I think this is an interesting idea. We’ve discussed improving ‘private > browsing mode’ here before, and indeed part of that is, of course, to > improve anonymity. Part of what I suggested was respecting ‘context’ (a > large part of privacy in real life), and indeed one example I think I > raised was the analogy of meeting your therapist at a party: you both know > who the other is, but you also know that you’ll probably pretend not to, > etc. > > Having the web-site suggest that interactions with it might appropriately > be ‘sandboxed’ in this way, and treated as forming a separate private > browsing session and context, is an interesting idea. > > I think this also points out ways in which the relationship between sites > nd users need not always be hostile :-(. In this case, the site is > suggesting to the UA ways to handle the privacy of the interaction > appropriately, and so forming a cooperative relationship with the user. > > Thank you. > > > On Aug 12, 2015, at 10:42 , François Légaré <flegare@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I work for a big telecom company in Canada that currently give various > sponsorship for mental health organisations. Part of the sponsorship is > making sites and mobile applications to help individual get online help and > access information and resources that are often sensible. > > > > One example is http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/ they provide anonymous > phone line for kids that may have issue or problem in their family. This > lead to a sensitive problem, a kid visiting this site need to know how to > clean browsing history since a adult seeing the browsing history might > challenge the kids about the visit and lead to more stress or bigger > problems. They did explain on the site header how to flush history and > train visitor about the anonymous tab, this isn't perfect at all, because > it really entirely on the user actions and the assumption that he read and > understood the section. > > > > Since not all internet user are tech savvy and are aware of the > anonymous tabs, so my suggestion for the W3C would be the following: > > > > A head meta tag that could help define sensitivity level of the online > html content. This tag once detected by the browser could apply various > policy to increase anonymity and reduce potential problems, ideally default > policies would implicitly insure higher privacy for the end users. > > > > For instance browser that detect the meta tag could automatically go in > "anonymous mode" and don't track browsing history, remove cached content, > etc. This will insure a more anonymous browsing experience for such site > for users that are less aware of the already available privacy features. > Content rating meta tag to some extends could be used but this is a bit far > fetch but could be less involving since tags already exist. > > > > Of course I'm quite sure, site with adult content would also be like > such features but this is not really the issue I'm trying to resolve at > this point. > > > > According to some of the W3C members this is a valid place to submit > this suggestion, I hope this will be well received. > > > > Regards, > > > > Francois > > > > David Singer > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc. > >
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