Phil Windley at Technometria has an interesting post up about an alternative way of looking at privacy permissions – essentially, a user-driven system of classifying how a third party is permitted to use your identity information. Gist:
IRA’s should come in a limited set of configurations, like CC. This makes it easy for people to choose and become familiar with what they mean. So, they might be:
Post publicly (broadcast) Share with anyone, but can’t broadcast Share with self and partners with which you have a legal agreement to honor this agreement Keep to self Stored encrypted Use for this purpose and destroy These are just suggestions. There might be more and they certainly need better names and descriptions.
