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Ask HN: What should an Internet “Bill of Rights” include?
- angersock 12y agoMore upvotes, for one. More seriously, I think that a few things are in order for services: 1. Information collected about a user must always disclosed ahead of time, and such explanations must be always worded succinctly and clearly. 2. Information collected about a user is always available to be downloaded by that user--there should be no cases where a user is not able to replicate what their service has collected about them. Note that this does not include secondary, derived information (for example, statistics calculated from the data collected). 3. The sharing of a user's information must always be disclosed before it happens, and the user given a straightforward opportunity to disallow that sharing (perhaps at the cost of their continued service). 4. A user must always be able to request all data gathered about them or derived from data gathered about them be expunged from a service. Population statistics calculated from this data do not have to be altered. 5. A user must always be allowed to create new accounts without having to link them to pre-existing accounts--in effect, anonymous accounts.