Re: Summary of First Party vs. Third Party Tests

Add one minority opinion that says that the distinction between first and 
third parties is too complex. This mixes technical and legal consideration 
into an indigestible brewing. It will make implementation on the service side 
too complex. It will create risk and ambiguity. 

I would rather tone down the compliance requirements for all and not 
distinguish between first and third parties to avoid the difficult 
distinctions. (I can generate a number of challenging distinctions on demand)

I also believe that this will create a race into being a first party and that 
every ambiguity will be used to become a first party. At the end of the day, 
everybody will be a first party by contract or other virtue.

Best,

Rigo

On Friday 28 October 2011 22:11:24 Jonathan Mayer wrote:
> (ACTION-25)
> 
> As I understand it, there are four camps on how to distinguish between first
> parties and third parties.
> 
> 1) Domain names (e.g. public suffix + 1).
> 
> 2) Legal business relationships (e.g. corporate ownership + affiliates).
> 
> 3) Branding.
> 
> 4) User expectations.
> 
> Here are some examples that show the boundaries of these definitions.
> 
> Example: The user visits Example Website at example.com.  Example Website
> embeds content from examplestatic.com, a domain controlled by Example
> Website and used to host static content.
> 
> Discussion: Content from the examplestatic.com domain is first-party under
> every test save the first.
> 
> Example: Example Website (example.com) strikes a deal with Example Affiliate
> (affiliate.com), an otherwise unrelated company, to share user data.  The
> user visits Example Website, and it embeds content from Example Affiliate.
> 
> Discussion: Content from Example Affiliate is third-party under every test
> save the second.
> 
> Example: Example Website embeds a widget from Example Social Aggregator. 
> The widget includes a prominent logo for Example Social Aggregator, though
> a user is unlikely to recognize it.
> 
> Discussion: Content from Example Social Aggregator is third-party under
> every test save the third.

Received on Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:13:07 UTC