Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

2015-04-17 Thread Christian Huitema
On Friday, April 17, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Dave Crocker wrote > ... > This translates into "privacy relates to controlling disclosure of > information about a person or organization." Then add the > scope-of-control portion. There is indeed some fuzziness in the definition of privacy. I like the anal

Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

2015-04-17 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/17/2015 8:11 AM, Josh Howlett wrote: > privacy relates to the disclosure of information by one subject /about/ > another. Sorry, no. That's overly narrow. The portion of text stating "...and with expectations regarding the context and scope of sharing." might be taken to imply what you've

Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

2015-04-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2015-04-17 11:11:54 -0400, Josh Howlett wrote: > My simplistic rule of thumb is that confidentiality relates to the > opaqueness of information communicated /between/ subjects, whereas > privacy relates to the disclosure of information by one subject > /about/ another. Privacy also relates

Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

2015-04-17 Thread Josh Howlett
> Note that the definition isn't all that complicated, but does cover the > essential issue that discussions of privacy usually entail, specifically > control > over disclosure. Also note that that is quite a useful distinction from > "confidentiality" and its usual embodiment of "encryption". +

Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

2015-04-17 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/16/2015 3:33 PM, Robin Wilton wrote: > I don't know of an official IETF finite on, but this is the one the Internet > Society has been using for a while, and I think it's still good: > > http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/12/language-privacy Thanks. That definition looks quite reason

Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

2015-04-17 Thread Fred Yeboah
Dear all, Thank you very much for your various contribution, advice and lead to documents to address my curiosity on what is Online privacy. While there seems not to be an official working definition of Online Privacy, how is this phenomenon measured currently online. Under what circumstance do