15 Top Privacy Policies, Analyzed - ReadWriteEnterprise. We all know no one reads privacy policies.
What do the top websites really include in them? In its mission to get anonymous public data, The Common Data Project a New York City-based non-profit, is on a mission to eliminate the barriers that privacy policies pose. In a new report, they analyzed ten of the most popular Web properties on the Internet, and several more emerging ones. Here's how what they put in their policies affects your privacy, and how other enterprises can imitate their best practices. Regardless of any similarities or differences within policies, one thing is absolutely clear: tons of data is being collected about you, though some of it may already be incidental enough to be private (such as the popularity of search terms). Privacy is certainly not an issue limited to the Web, but it facilitates the nearly limitless ability to gather data by the boatload.
Policies Analyzed Common Themes Private Data Not Covered By Policy Yes, that's right. Reasonable Expectations. The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web - ReadWriteWeb. The social Web has given users great power: the ability to create and share content with people around the world - easily and quickly.
The problem of course, is that power is often not compatible with effective and clear thinking. The thought that germinated in an instant can be immortalized in perpetuity on the Web. With the extraordinary growth of the Internet and the interlinking of information that the social Web has brought with it, it's time to examine the footprints we leave on the Web as we move into the future that promises to "throttle the 'wisdom of the crowds' from turning into the 'madness of the mobs,'" as described so eloquently by Jason Calacanis. Search Engines Are No Longer Enough With Internet usage growing at a remarkable pace it comes as no surprise that comScore recently rated Google as the most popular Internet property in the world, attracting over 777.9 million visitors as of December 2008. Interconnected on the Web There is No Delete Button on the Web "Mr.
UserStories - Social Web XG Wiki. Writing up user stories of how a user (Alice) interact with closed social networks, we should try and see how we can build similar scenarios in a distributed environment.
Please keep this high-level: no data format or protocol should be mentioned, but rather how Alice would interact with tools or services that would implement this format or that protocol. Highlight the motivations and incentives that would drive the user to take such or such action. Lexicon Social Network or Social Application - an application running somewhere (on a server, on the desktop, in '"the cloud"', etc...) which stores information about a user and allows them to connect and share with others.
Connection - a basic link between people, not necessarily embellished with a relationship and can also be asymmetric (e.g. a follow type relationship) or symmetric. Relationship - a connection which has been embellished with additional meaning, e.g friend, family, co-worker. List of Possible Actors Alice Bob Carol Dave Eve François.