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==MozCamp Europe Discussions==

===Summary===

* '''We should help people to better understand and have more control over the privacy of their various online activities & contexts''' <br/>''[knowledge, visibility, selectivity, control]''

* '''We should provide leadership in the development, promotion and use of open standards for data representation & interoperability''' <br/>''[interoperability, standards, openness]''

* '''If we use data to enhance the online experience we should ensure that we're doing so in ways that promote and ''raise'' expectations for data protection, control and transparency practices on the Web as a whole''' <br/>''[user experience, data protection, policies, control, transparency]''

===Detailed Notes===

* '''We should help people to better understand and have more control over the privacy of various online activities & contexts'''
** users should be able to change their mind at any time about what they are sharing as situations change (e.g. companies change ownership)
** it should be clearer to users when there is data being collected about them, both explicitly (by submitting a form) and through use (by using a web site)
** differentiated between public and private spaces & activities
** flexibility and control to selectively share data
** data sharing could increase efficiency (e.g. not having to fill out forms with the same data on multiple web sites)
** how do you know if your activity online is public or private, e.g. the browser tells you now if the session is encrypted, could it also tell you how the data submitted from a form may be used
** ability to see the data that you're sharing with anyone
** all decisions (and rights) on your data should be revocable

* '''We should provide leadership in the development, promotion and use of open standards for data representation & interoperability'''
** increasing prevalence of proprietary data formats, opportunities to enable adoption of open formats?
** lots of duplication of metadata (e.g. CD/DVD titles, etc.), opportunities to aggregate and consolidate into shared commons
** customer can't leverage own data
** blog comments are hard for people to keep track of
** we've solved some of the data privacy and interoperability problems before and new web services are reinventing components of these technologies but not adopting the practices and policies that were developed over years, i.e. data retention policies, access controls, interoperability, data portability, etc.
** should be possible to combine data feeds from various public and/or proprietary sources and do something useful with them, e.g. visualizations, mashups, etc.
** there should be common formats and/or open standards to represent data and data policies
** files and media in proprietary formats are at risk of being useless if and when companies that back them fail.
** should focus on developing and promoting open standards & interoperability
** should evangelize and protect against dangers inherent in RFC-based Internet communication and data interchange formats/protocols (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, etc.) being replaced with proprietary Web technologies (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
** should define "open"-ness for data & related services and ensure that it means more than just publishing the API to a set of proprietary hosted services

* '''If we use data to enhance the online experience we should ensure that we're doing so in ways that promote and ''raise'' expectations for data protection, control and transparency practices on the Web as a whole'''
** data being stored locally and on servers of companies that you interact with is valuable [and presently outside of your ability to view, edit or control]
** should be possible to combine data feeds from various public and/or proprietary sources and do something useful with them, e.g. visualizations, mashups, etc.
** we should lead the way in opening data and setting example
** open source tools & libraries for handling data could be created that set the example and make it easy for people to do the right thing, i.e. so companies and developers don't need to invest in development of infrastructure
** make it easier for people to do the right thing, right now it's easier to be less secure and with no data protection
** many countries laws protect their citizens
** legal coverage to protect people (e.g. outside the EU) is questionable
** what access does the US gov't have to user data for users outside of their jurisdiction?
** privacy policies could be standardized to be easier to read and understand
** all decisions (and rights) on your data should be revocable
** are there legal jurisdiction considerations in the location of any data that we collect?
** should be possible to combine data feeds from various public and/or proprietary sources and do something useful with them, e.g. visualizations, mashups, etc.
** there should be common formats and/or open standards to represent data and data policies