Icons for a data portability policy – a few thoughts
January 27th, 2010 admin

I sat down with the DataPortability Project ’s Elias Bizannes a few months ago to organize the elements of a model portability policy . Your site’s portability policy will be part of your Terms of Service or End User License Agreement. Your portability policy should help your sites and services communicate the data portability parts of your relationship with the people who use them and your business partners. I’m heading down to an all day privacy forum co-hosted by Lauren Gelman and Mozilla this morning to discuss what browsers might do with a “privacy” icon. The Clusters We clustered portability policy questions into five stacks: Start, Sync, Access, Share, and End. I sketched five …
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