On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mr C A Rusbridge wrote:
[good points snipped]
> No easy answers here, just something to think about and perhaps get your
> evaluators to gather user and librarian poinions on the issue.
The W3C's P3P project (platform for privacy and preferences) has done a
lot of highly relevant work in this area, both technical and consensus
building. Technically, they describe an architecture where user-agents can
negotiate with servers about the use to which access statistics,
clickstream info etc will be put. Socially, they provide us with a
proposed standard vocabulary for Web-based services to describe their
privacy practices. In the future(tm) this will be accessible as
machine-readable RDF; in the meantime the vocabulary is there already.
Services that make possibly controversial uses of user-behaviour stats
might consider using P3P terminogy when describing their privacy policy.
If the vocabulary isn't adequate for what we need in an eLib context, we
could look to see if there are extensions that might be proposed for the
next version. (If anyones interested in evaluating P3P in the context,
please get in touch...)
Dan
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