Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Mozilla Leads Icon Experiment To Simplify Information About Website Privacy Policies

Meeting at Mozilla headquarters Friday, November 16, "experts" read through privacy policies of 235 websites and assigned icons that will summarize their content. For example, if a site has a privacy policy which allows it to sell users’ personal data to third parties, the site is assigned an icon that consist of an orange circle with a dollar sign in the middle and an orange arrow pointing up, suggesting caution. In comparison, a website privacy policy that indicates the site will not sell such information gets a green circle and dollar sign. For additional information on the initiative see the New York Times Bits Blog, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/building-an-iconography-for-digital-privacy/

(This entry was originally written and posted by Darla Jackson)

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