Design of an Information Practice Vocabulary

Lorrie Faith Cranor
AT&T Labs-Research
lorrie@research.att.com

Joseph Reagle Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
reagle@mit.edu

Abstract:

The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3), under development by the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is a framework for automated
privacy discussions on the Internet. The options chosen in
developing the protocols, grammar, and vocabulary for expressing
privacy practices leads the authors to a number of generalizations
regarding the development of technology designed for a "social" purpose.
In this paper we will explain the goals of P3 and discuss several
choices we have faced in its development, recommendations we would
make towards the development of other policy related schema, and
relationships between technical and policy decisions in the
development of a "social protocol."