On 5/5/2016 1:30 AM, Robin Wilton wrote:
Privacy can also be a subjective thing (for instance, some people
think it's important to draw their curtains in the evening - others
don't). That subjectivity makes privacy a highly contextual thing,
This is an Alice, Through the Looking Glass perspective on the term.
At the least, it means it is not a technical term, in which case using
it in technical contexts is mostly going to cause confusion, since one
speaker's intended meaning will differ from another listener's...
Standards work is primarily an exercise in gaining group consensus on
technical specifics. If 'privacy' is to be a technical term, then we
need to agree on its specifics. That doesn't mean the term needs lots
of fine-grained detail. In fact, for something this important and this
basic, it needs as little detail as possible, while still serving to
guide technical choices.
Privacy is about retaining the ability to disclose data consensually,
and with expectations regarding the context and scope of sharing.
...
> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/12/language-privacy
This looks like an entirely reasonable and helpful definition, as I
noted a year ago.
There are other, similarly short and focused, definitions. Each is
reasonable. And while the differences in the definitions probably
matter, I think that the need to focus technical work requires choosing
one. If we want the term to have useful substance.
The fact that choosing one has some challenges is being used as a reason
for not trying. That's an ironic excuse, for an organization whose
primary reason for being is the development of community consensus on
non-trivial choices...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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