(Modularized) Human Readable Privacy Policies

A market based approach to promote Rights online as a quality differentiator

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Agenda

• The Coalition• Charter of Human Rights and Principles on the Internet

• Human Readable Privacy Policy approach• Next Steps• Conclusions

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Multi-Stakeholder Coalition

• Humanistic conception of the Internet• Human Rights based Internet Governance

• 150 Participants• x NGOS, 5+ Gov’s, UNESCO, Google

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software (technological) code + legal (social) code = perfect architecture of control.

Lessig While we are very successful in building globally spanning

internetworked technology on the basis of open standards and simple, liberal rules like “running code and rough consensus,”;

We have been less successful at rooting our social code in similarly simple and liberal rules: those that nurture human rights.

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Charter of Human Rights and Principles on the Internet

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Mehldau, 2007

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Berkeley, 2009

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Proof of Concept

• Email Disclaimers (Footer)• Decentral / no blessing needed• Easier (rights holder control)

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Goals

(a) push for better standards (b) raise awareness amongst users thereby (c) make Rights a relevant positioning / branding

point.

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Thank You & join IRP!

www.internetrightsandprinciples.org

www.privacyos.eu/wiki/index.php/PrivacyRightsAgreements

maxsenges@gmail.com

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