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The W3C – the standards body of surveillance capitalism – on privacy.

If you had any “privacy principles” to speak of, what would Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Bloomberg, Google, Huawei, IAB, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Bilibili, SoftBank, Tencent, Yahoo!, Zoom, etc., be doing on your members list?

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w3c.socialWorld Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)The @tag published "Privacy Principles," a Note for wide review. They state: "Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy." https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw

@aral not just there. I’ve been in ISO standardization committees that were rendered pointless because of company interference. They don’t want to implement anything they don’t already do, which in this case wasn’t a lot, and would only agree on the lowest common denominator. I got out as quick as I could.

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw

@aral I think it is a tactic for dealing with initiatives: render them pointless by joining them.

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InsertUser

@doc @aral but at least the ISO standards will be obscenely expensive and inaccessible when they're done.

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw

@InsertUser @doc @aral that too. Even if it’s related to safety, because apparently you should only be allowed to safely engineer according to standards if you can afford it. And it’s not just the one standard you need to buy as they usually reference a few others too. Gets very expensive very fast.

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw

@InsertUser @doc @aral and to top it off, the people who put effort and lots of time into fine-tuning every word are not mentioned anywhere.

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