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Toward Objective Global Privacy Standards

Published

Author(s)

Ari M. Schwartz

Abstract

Technical standards offer a new ability to support the important public policy goal of better protecting privacy. To do so most effectively, we must begin to move from the privacy standards based on subjective and procedural efforts to a series of objective performance driven privacy standards. Better scientific metrics tied to each Fair Information Practice Principle are a necessary precursor to the reproducible measurements for any set of objective criteria that could be the basis for such standards.
Proceedings Title
The IETF Internet Architecture Board (IAB), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Society (ISOC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Conference on "How Can Technology Help to Improve Privacy on the Internet?"

Conference Dates
December 8-9, 2010
Conference Location
Cambridge, MA

Keywords

privacy, privacy standards

Citation

Schwartz, A. (2010), Toward Objective Global Privacy Standards, The IETF Internet Architecture Board (IAB), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Society (ISOC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Conference on "How Can Technology Help to Improve Privacy on the Internet?" , Cambridge, MA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=907355 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created December 8, 2010, Updated January 27, 2020