Privacy policies are not something I am intimately familiar with, but this seems like a problem that could be solved in a similar way to licensing open source software.
When I look at using a piece of software I quickly jump to the license, if it is BSD or similar I typically jump right in. I don't even have to read the terms because I know the BSD license. I would love to have a similar system for privacy licensing on various online services. Is there anything like this out there?
I just wanted to say that. The web needs a clear privacy policies scheme similar to f.ex. CC with clear guidelines, and even maybe fancy logos like the CC ones. You take a glance at the image, click to see the text version for details and your done.
p3p [http://www.w3.org/P3P/] was based on similar intuitions. If there were a small number of frequently used policies, you could take things one step further to formally describe these policies and even build software to help negotiate: what information are you willing to share given this policy?
It turns out that privacy policies were too subtle and varied and hard for people to understand for this to work.
When I look at using a piece of software I quickly jump to the license, if it is BSD or similar I typically jump right in. I don't even have to read the terms because I know the BSD license. I would love to have a similar system for privacy licensing on various online services. Is there anything like this out there?
Seems like it would not be very hard.