On 13/02/2019 01:50, R. Jason Cronk wrote:
"The annoyance of videos and sounds is much smaller than the impact of a privacy or security breach, so weaker methods can be acceptable."Is it though? This is an INTRUSION under the Solove Taxonomy of Privacy: a invasion in one's tranquility or solitude. Many people have been quietly surfing the web only to be rudely interrupted by a loud sound emanating from their speakers. What's more than annoying is when you open up several tabs and have to find which tab is playing the video to shut it off. Depending on what sounds came from the speakers and who was in earshot, it could be a DISCLOSURE violation as well, revealing truthful information about someone that adversely affects their security or causes people to judge their character. False information through an audio ad could by a DISTORTION violation. ("Do you suffer from erectile dysfunction?") Back in the days, my friends and I had Nextel Push to Talk radio phones where the recipient didn't have to answer. If we knew our friend was in a particularly sensitive place, we shout all sorts of obnoxious things through their phone, until they turned them off. Anyway, my point is the impact of autoplaying sound or video can be pretty significant.
Yet not as significant as having your every move recorded by and sold to large gangs of powerful people wanting to abuse your privacy in much more severe ways. I am not aware of that particular theoretical taxonomy you quote, but the danger of 3rd party code and cookies often reaches the higher level of having your private life recorded and seen against your will, essentially the violation of a peeping tom. Classifying disturbance as a significant "privacy" violation is a theory most often used as a misdirection by those seeking to violate deeper privacy, using phrases such as "not used in a form that identifies you" or "not used to contact you", leaving much worse unrestricted. Those two phrases often translate to "we will not even bother with your name before harming you" and "we will not ask before stealing from you". Enjoy Jakob -- Jakob Bohm, CIO, Partner, WiseMo A/S. https://www.wisemo.com Transformervej 29, 2860 Søborg, Denmark. Direct +45 31 13 16 10 This public discussion message is non-binding and may contain errors. WiseMo - Remote Service Management for PCs, Phones and Embedded _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
