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Feb 04

More Ideas on How to Rate Web Site Privacy


mozilla-foundation2Last week we wrote of an interesting proposal by major advertisers to append a stylized “i” to online ads that rely on consumer online behavior data. Now the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, is designing a standard set of colored icons to reveal how data-protective — or how intrusive — Web sites are.  Mozilla’s hope is to use the leverage it has through its popular browser to convince Web publishers to disclose their privacy practices in a standard way. What might the Mozilla privacy icons look like? The Mozilla Foundation posted these graphics:

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CNET explains that a major challenge  for Mozilla will be to avoid the pitfalls of P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences), an earlier effort to convince Web publishers to rate Web site privacy practices in a standard manner.

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  1. Антон Павлович

      Mozilla’s hope is […….

    Да, действительно. Я присоединяюсь ко всему выше сказанному. Давайте обсудим этот вопрос. Здесь или в PM….

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