Privacy Principles

What?

• https://w3ctag.github.io/privacy-principles/
• Joint effort between the TAG and PING
• Appointed 12-member task force
• Document in wide review

1.3 User Agents

• "The user agent is expected to align fully with the person using it and to operate exclusively in that person's interest."
• Duties of protection, discretion, honesty, and loyalty
• Trustworthy user agents provide a fiduciary framework for privacy, which has a number of advantages over other approaches

2.2 Data Minimization

2.8 Device Owners and Administrators

• Devices are owned by people other than their users
• UAs have to balance these interests
• Owners can ensure reasonable restrictions on use
• Users must know about data disclosure

2.9 Protecting web users from abusive behaviour

A.2: Common concepts: Contexts

• A context is a physical or digital environment in which people interact with other actors, and which the people understand as distinct from other contexts. A context is not defined in terms of who owns or controls it.
• Consider the person's actual understanding and expectations as the basis for how to handle information about them