Author: Mary Hodder

Personal Terms and Contracts: Abbreviated Shorthand Designations

Abbreviation System for Terms: Human and Legal Implementations, Visualization of Implementation Human Readable Implementation [TBD] Legal Implementation Legal Language (Appendix) The choices that ordinary individuals make about disclosing their data are used to construct a contract between discloser and disclosee. The contract consists of some universal boilerplate, a few clauses that are selected from a…
Latest draft of the No Stalking for Advertising Term V.2

UX and INTERFACE Revised DRAFT of a singular, comprehensive term: Draft Icon for inclusion in MVCR and other uses: USER TERMS: Human language and {{ legal language }} below. PREAMBLE: The User submitted term shown here creates an opportunity for individuals to share their single term with entities about how they wish to be treated.…
Latest Draft of Terms, V .7

This version of terms can also be found here at Kantara, Consent and Information Sharing Working Group, User Terms. It is version .7 and includes a draft of human readable language after each term choice, followed by legal readable language in double brackets like this: {{ }}. USER TERMS: Human language and {{ legal language…
Terms: What are They and Why Should You Care?

Terms are choices you make to ask that your data and activities be treated a certain way. Customer Commons is developing terms with Kantara and the Consent and Information Sharing Working Group so that we have a standardized set of terms, which can commonly be used through browsers, apps and other forms. It is our…
April 6th Customer Commons and PDEC Salon

Join us for a joint PDEC and Customer Commons salon dinner April 6th, Monday night, 6-9pm in Mountain View. This is the night before IIW’s, and at the end of the VRM day, where we will have an opportunity to talk about Banking, Credit and Personal Data with LaVonne Reimer. Sign up at Eventbrite for the…
Customer Commons and User Submitted Terms

Above is a strawman proposal for icons for user-submitted terms that I’ve been presenting in talks and in prototypes for creating privacy-protecting technology for individuals. I’ve been sharing this with people for the last couple of years to increasing recognition that we need a simple way to assert our terms. I made it up to demonstrate…
Thanks for Attending the Customer Commons Salon Last Night

Thanks to everyone who attended the Customer Commons Salon last night. It was a nice night to socialize, and talk. Doc Searls gave us a quick report on Omie, the Customer Commons project that will be made for Android, and later we hope, other platrforms. Omie is meant to make the device yours, instead of…
Join the Customer Commons’ Salon May 5, 2014 Ming’s Palo Alto

We are holding a salon dinner May 5, Monday night, 6-9pm in Palo Alto. As we have, the night before the past 4 IIW’s, and at the end of the VRM day, we have an event for Customer Commons. Join us for VRM day here, on May 5, 9-5pm, Computer History Museum. Sign ups at…
Mozilla has a cute video on the open, privacy protecting web

Check it out here at The Web We Want: An Open Letter: And the note Mozilla posted with the video: Our right to a free and open Internets has been under threat lately. The NSA — btw, that stands for the National Security Agency, which has the fancy responsibility of analyzing and acting upon security…
Data Privacy Legal Hack-A-thon

Customer Commons is supporting, and board member, Mary Hodder, is hosting the Bay Area event. Additionally, there are NYC and London locations. Please join us if you are interested: This is an unprecedented year documenting our loss of Privacy. Never before have we needed to stand up and team up to do something about it.…