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Present:

Colin, Dana, Michelle

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  • create a survey for vendors?

e) a specific list of privacy preferences, conditions, and uses of privacy information, which we will contribute to the ISO 24751 registry

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  • so-called "free" services that want your data

    • personal data that is valuable in aggregate - motivations/interests of vendor/services are opaque to user

    • understanding the motivations/uses contributes to user-autonomy
  • what would motivate vendors to declare what info they’re using and for what ?

  • what kinds of info are folks willing to share, under what conditions? (user-determined value)

  • look at what the Brave browser is doing https://brave.com/ 

  • how to get past the abstract idea or ideology around privacy (the general feeling that “I don’t ever want my personal data misused/used by vendors”) and get to specifics ?

    • discuss choices, compromises people are willing to make based on valuable features etc (threshold for value exchange)

    • discuss the tradeoffs (between getting valuable features for users, and giving data to vendors)

    • sometimes caused by not knowing that personal data is actually being used or what it’s being used for

    • understanding how aggregate data is used - for targeted advertising etc

    • also consider the very real and more dangerous consequences (often in countries outside of Canada etc) of data / location tracking