Creating modular human readable Privacy conditions on websites
This project has moved to http://wiki.igf-online.net/w/index.php?title=Privacy-rights-agreements and is being discussed at the privacy coalition mailing list - <http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/
Instead of the long legal text of the "Terms of Services" for services (like facebook, gmail, hotmail, etc.) which everybody just clicks "Yes i agree" but nobody really understands the conditions, we want to develop a way to standardize these texts and then design a set of icons and create a "human readable" version for each aspect.
Once implemented this will allow to (a) to push for better standards, (b) raise awarness amongst users thereby (c) make Rights a relevant positioning / branding point.
Two design aspects seem particularly important in this context: The interpretations of the Rights to the context and needs of specific internet services needs to be organised in a way that (a) the standards can evolve (stakehodlers can initiate updates and amendments, as well as new standards for new applications) and (b) they should be modular (so the service provider can choose between several standardized Rights aspects)
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