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[ NNSquad ] Web "Privacy Themes" Proposal: Reaction and More Info
Web "Privacy Themes" Proposal: Reactions and More Info
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000867.html
A couple of days ago, in "Web Privacy Is Obsolete! So Now What?"
( http://j.mp/lkZXOd [Lauren's Blog] ), I proposed a framework for the
simplification and optimization of Web user privacy preferences on Web
sites -- a "Privacy Themes" structure (or more formally, "User Privacy
Preference Themes" - UPPTs).
The concept of Privacy Themes is basically to create user-oriented
"higher order" groupings and intelligent preference linkage "rules"
for the myriad and complex privacy-related settings that increasingly
are part and parcel of Web site use today.
The goal of this structure is to minimize users' misunderstanding of
privacy preference settings, maximize users' satisfaction with
privacy-related defaults and settings choices, and generally to
broadly improve the user experience with Web sites within these
contexts.
In all honestly, I brought up Policy Themes in that posting with a bit
of trepidation. I've been working on details related to this concept
for quite some time, and as I noted in the posting, my many detailed
notes on this are not yet in shape for publication, nor am I in a
position right now to spend the kind of time needed to bring them up
to a suitable standard that I'd consider to be appropriate for
publication.
I mention this because I was surprised by the high level of interest
regarding my Saturday posting, and the large number of people asking
for details regarding Privacy Themes, wanting to join a discussion
mailing list (which does not at this time exist) and so on.
To everyone who wrote me about Privacy Themes, please consider this to
be my apology for not responding to you all individually. My hope is
that this approach may be of some use to the Internet community, and
I'd like to "get it out there" as soon as possible in a useful form.
But given the current situation, I simply cannot deal with this
appropriately right now in terms of posting all of the materials, or
getting into the kinds of detailed technical and policy discussions
related to this that I'd really love to do if other issues didn't have
priority at the moment in my life.
I will attempt to individually answer specific questions related to
Privacy Themes as circumstances permit. I would like to publicly post
additional related materials and start an associated discussion
mailing list, but these will have to wait for a while at least, given
the status quo, anyway.
Thank you so much for your interest in this proposal. Take care, all.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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