I’m going to start this post with a famous quote from Wernher von Braun – you can recover from a production flaw but never from a design flaw. Right now there’s lots of activity in the Privacy space (note that I say activity vs. outcome). There’s an initiative by regulators to reign in what they […]
Posts Categorized: #Choice
Privacy as a Competitive Differentiator
Time to take a step back from standards. Let’s look at privacy from an entirely different angle – Privacy as a competitive weapon. If your business could increase customer loyalty, improve employee compliance or attract new customers because you guarantee to respect their privacy by giving them a choice – would you? It’s not just […]
Privacy Must be a Choice. Managing Choice Must Be Simple.
The digital Privacy debate continues and the W3C are defining Do Not Track (DNT) standards right now. The goal is good, but I fear they are making things more complicated than they need to be. In an ideal world, users would have a choice over everything that gets shared and with whom it is shared. […]
Privacy: It can be Global, Local & now Regional
In yesterdays post Privacy: Do Not Track is Global – But can it ever be Local? I talked about Mozilla proposed new “Three state setting for “Do Not Track” The current standard is either Allow Tracking or Do Not Track (binary). However this doesn’t satisfy all the use cases on the Web, nor fit well with […]
Privacy: Do Not Track is Global – But can it ever be Local?
Yes… (read on) Today Mozilla proposed a new “Three state setting for “Do Not Track” The current standard is either Allow Tracking or Do Nott Track (binary). However this doesn’t satisfy all the use cases on the Web nor fit well with laws in Europe. (The three-state setting for Do Not Track will […]