- From: Jason Catlett <catlett@junkbusters.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:08:02 -0400 (EDT)
- To: catlett@junkbusters.com, djweitzner@w3.org, janet@w3.org, laliberte@w3.org
- Cc: deirdre@cdt.org, lorrie@research.att.com, reagle@alum.mit.edu, Roger.Clarke@anu.edu.au, slucas@privaseek.com, www-p3p-public-comments@w3.org
Thanks Danny. I'll look forward to the dialog. 1. On developing services to support anonymous communication: Your letter suggests that W3C should be putting energy into developing specs to enable more anonymous communication. I believe that anonymity is tremendously important, see http://develop.lcs.mit.edu/anniv/speakers/presentation?id=041399-15 for example, and would like to hear your thoughts on what W3C or other bodies could do to advance this goal. One thing that jumps to mind is RFC 2109, which proposes that third party cookies not be sent by default. But I'm sure there are many others. 2. Your letter encouraged me to look more closely at your Junkbuster service. Being a lawyer who reads the fine print, I noticed that you ask users to grant your company a copyright license in their personal information. Yes, as the purpose of the service is to get data about permissions and denials from the individual to markers, we thought it best to have an explicit licence. There is also an option here for the data subject to use the data under the GPL. Obviously the mere names are not copyright, and the question of how far the canned format permissions are covered is one for the savants. The common element here is that existing US law is not adequate to protect personal data. Trying to bend copyright or property rights to do so is torturous. I agree with you that propertization is a very unsatisfactory route. Nor is technology going to solve the problem alone. BTW, the URL for the final version of my letter is: http://www.junkbusters.com/standards.html best Jason
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