Re: June Draft Proposal: Collection and Use Definitions

Yes, I think Lee and I have overlapping proposals here.  Feel free to merge mine into his. 

Jonathan


On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Nicholas Doty wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> I've added this proposal to the relevant wiki page:
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/Privacy/TPWG/Change_Proposal_Transience_Collection
> 
> I strongly suspect that this could be consolidated with the text Lee proposed yesterday, also based on the earlier EFF/Mozilla/Stanford draft. It seems that the "share" definition is functionally equivalent, but your proposal for collects uses "receives" rather than "comes within control".
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Jonathan Mayer <jmayer@stanford.edu (mailto:jmayer@stanford.edu)> wrote:
> 
> > In lieu of the present definitions, I would propose the following:
> > > A party collects data if it receives the data.
> > > 
> > > A party uses data if the party processes the data for any purpose.
> > 
> > The definition of collection does not include ambiguous carveouts for unshared or "transient" data, unlike the June Draft. The definition of use also encompasses storage, since reformatting or restructuring data may involve substantial access to that data.