Came across this subthread at hn today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607528 :

SpicyLemonZest 3 hours ago Which is why the EU has already mandated that. But privacy is a complicated issue, so there are limits to how brief a complete policy can be; just the suggested template[1] is a four page PDF. [1] https://gdpr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Our-Company-Privacy-Policy.pdf

pbhjpbhj 2 hours ago One way to do this would be to have privacy standards. EU PP0, PP1, PP2, etc., that would conform to particular uses of one's data. Such info could be tagged in page head and then you could do things like search for a forum that doesn't (according to policy) use your data for revenue (or share it outside the named business -- perhaps that's "PP0", in analogy to CC0), etc.. Just thinking on my feet, E&OE.

sroussey 1 hour ago P3P header? What’s old is new again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

Comes as no big surprise that this wasn't successful, but it is a really nifty idea and something that would be nice to try again in some way or another.

Here’s the situation: I’m visiting someone and I need to type in my name and phone number so they can put me in contact with whoever I’m visiting.

Then – for my convenience- the system asks me if I want it to store my contact details for future use, and it didn’t default to true.

Below: how simple GDPR can be if you aren’t planning to sell my data to anyone:

Filed under #GDPR and #privacy

Above: installing Edge just to test the UX. No glaring dark patterns except putting Chrome at top but that might have been random for what I know. They even included a link to a description of how to switch default browser so I choose to file this under actually trying to do the right thing.

This also happened:

Above: testing the UX for adding new search providers. Again no glaring dark patterns, and instructions on how to add it to the home screen were available in a linked document. FTR: DuckDuckGo.com has been my default search engine in my everyday browsers for a while already.

This should be considered a good start I guess, nothing more.

Also during the last week I came across this:

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

Which makes me a little happy as well.

Filed under #google #tech and#privacy