- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:57:28 +0100
- To: public-tracking@w3.org
- Cc: Kevin Smith <kevsmith@adobe.com>, Jonathan Mayer <jmayer@stanford.edu>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
Kevin, On Wednesday 07 March 2012 10:17:15 Kevin Smith wrote: > I have a request. To me, 'collection' is synonymous to 'retention' and I > automatically translate the 1st into the latter. From a lot of responses > over the last few months (not necessarily on this thread), I think many > others have a hard time separating these two terms as well. However, > usually when Jonathon uses the term 'collection' he is not referring to > 'retention', but rather the actual request that goes over the wire, and I > quickly get confused. Jonathon, any chance you can use a different word > (transmission perhaps) to refer to the request? IMHO, this is a vital distinction to preserve DNT's ability to gain global acceptance. Nearly all data protection regimes that I know of distinguish between collection and retention. That doesn't mean that all collection is harmful. It just means that many people distinguish. I also called for it in an earlier email. Rigo
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