Tomorrow is the big day. The day the EU-Cookie directive goes into effect. Already people are talking about how expensive it will be to maintain compliance. Well folks they haven’t seen anything yet. It’s not only expensive to be in compliance, you also have to think about the lost revenue that comes from […]
Posts Categorized: Context
The Consensual Web
As you know, we’ve been closely watching the discussions regarding the Do Not Track (DNT) initiative. A key discussion point is about first and third parties and how a third party can become a first party once you click on a “like” button or click through to another site or use an embedded service within […]
Choice Means Respect
I was reading this When Did Service Become the Customer’s Obligation? blog at Competitive Advantage Marketing it really struck a cord with me. While Dr. Coleman is talking about a different kind of “choice” than our enterprise browser provides, it does address a common theme. This quote from her blog really sums things up, “Our […]
Me – The intersection of Privacy, Security and Identity on the Web
As I read more and more about online privacy, security, and identity it seems to me that people are missing the larger picture here. So in this blog post I’ll attempt to join the dots. There are three main challenges on the Web today: A lack of confidence that people, organization and businesses […]
Privacy: My Expectations vs.. My Reality
I’m going to start this post with a famous quote from Wernher von Braun – you can recover from a production flaw but never from a design flaw. Right now there’s lots of activity in the Privacy space (note that I say activity vs. outcome). There’s an initiative by regulators to reign in what they […]