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Het Privacy Dashboard

Naar aanleiding van de controverse tussen Privacy International en Google herinnert John Battelle zich een eerdere gedachte:

Is it too much to ask, I keep asking, to ask our online services to provide us:

• Access to a record of all the information they keep on us and how they use it
• The ability to challenge that data’s accuracy, and edit it for accuracy
• The ability to opt out (with a clear understanding of the resulting loss of services and opportunities that might result)
• The ability to set permissions as to who else might see the data
• The right to maintain a user copy of that data for archival purposes
• The right to share in the value of that data on negotiated terms

Interessant om te zien dat ik een vergelijkbaar idee had. De slimmerikken bij Google hadden zoiets natuurlijk allang zelf bedacht, bleek uit het antwoord van Peter Fleischer (Google’s Privacy Council) op een vraag van Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land):

How about it? I asked Google’s global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer about this [a privacy control panel, eds.] yesterday, when talking to him about the Privacy International survey.

“We’re thinking hard internally along the digital dashboard-type of approach. Is there a way to give users a dashboard and visibility to all these elements and give them control,” he said. “It would be hugely complicated to build, but in terms of that vision, I completely share it, and we’re having deep discussions about it.”

Het zal me benieuwen of we ooit onze eigen internetdata zullen beheren.