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[ NNSquad ] Stanford's "Privicons" "email privacy tool" released
Stanford's "Privicons" "email privacy tool" released
http://j.mp/sOUhE0 (Stanford)
"To convey these signals, Privicons uses a vocabulary of icons that
clearly communicate email senders' privacy expectations. With the new
Privicons plugin for Chrome, Gmail users can select from a list of
these icons and attach them to their emails, unobtrusively but
noticeably. (A Firefox plugin is next.) When recipients see these
icons, we expect that many of them, motivated by neighborliness and
their understanding of social norms, will comply with their peers'
wishes and expectations."
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I am basically not impressed by such schemes. My suspicion is that
such "signals" will be overused by senders (often for bad reasons) and
largely ignored by recipients (often for good reasons). I'll elaborate
on this later as appropriate.
--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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