W3C Privacy Principles

[Rui Carlos]

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Abstract

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, and this document is written to work with both.

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Principles for Privacy on the Web

This section describes a set of principles designed to apply to the web context in general. Specific contexts on the web may need more constraints or other considerations. In time, we expect to see more specialized privacy principles published, for more specific contexts on the web.

These principles should be enforced by user agents. When this is not possible, additional enforcement mechanisms are needed.

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https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/

Ainda um draft, mas uma leitura interessante sobre o tema da privacidade na web, nomeadamente quanto ao papel que os user agents (e.g. browser) podem ter na protecção da privacidade dos utilizadores.