http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2006/09/04/information-monopolists/ Music, Politics and Code Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:50:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2006/09/04/information-monopolists/#comment-116 Stake Five :: The Singularity Cometh Forth Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:52:43 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/?p=44#comment-116 [...] Around the time I put up my first post on privacy, I started noticing conversation on the topic in the blogosphere. Oddly enough, I had started writing that post before I noticed the attention the blogosphere was paying to it. [...] [...] Around the time I put up my first post on privacy, I started noticing conversation on the topic in the blogosphere. Oddly enough, I had started writing that post before I noticed the attention the blogosphere was paying to it. [...]

]]> http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2006/09/04/information-monopolists/#comment-115 Stake Five :: Standardizing Privacy Policies Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:32:02 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/?p=44#comment-115 [...] If a site were to draft its own policy, a policy validator could be provided that would check which of the common policies the site’s policy conforms to. Now that would be great, especially if a site’s privacy policy could automatically be checked for conformance to APPEL (the P3P Preference Exchange Language, used to form rules defining P3P user preferences) expressions of privacy law for different jursidictions. And perhaps (just perhaps!) we might be able to catch those nasty information monopolists in the act, just so long as their P3P files do indeed declare their true intentions. [...] [...] If a site were to draft its own policy, a policy validator could be provided that would check which of the common policies the site’s policy conforms to. Now that would be great, especially if a site’s privacy policy could automatically be checked for conformance to APPEL (the P3P Preference Exchange Language, used to form rules defining P3P user preferences) expressions of privacy law for different jursidictions. And perhaps (just perhaps!) we might be able to catch those nasty information monopolists in the act, just so long as their P3P files do indeed declare their true intentions. [...]

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