DRAFT Privacy Roadmap for 2014
Background
In 2013, the public discussion around privacy focussed heavily on the wholesale collection of data and metadata from browsing and cell phone usage. Tracking has entered the public consciousness thanks to the Verizon revelations, Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing on the NSA, multi-national government involvement in surveillance, and news coverage on ad-tech companies monetizing browsing histories through tracking.
For the purposes of this document, tracking is any technique that can be used to accumulate history (browsing, messaging, purchase) and associate it with a particular person. Major sources of tracking include:
- Deliberate tracking for delivering targeted ads
- Social network widgets (“Like” button, +1 button, Retweet, etc.) and other services whose primary goal may not be tracking, but could be used for tracking
Non-goals for 2014 Non-tracking privacy related efforts. We currently don’t have headcount to tackle more than tracking efforts in 2014, although non-tracking potential goals are listed at the end. We should focus on a single area to strengthen our user story, increase likelihood of making progress, and concentrate impact.
This roadmap doesn’t discuss SSL-everywhere, which is already included on the security roadmap.
How we work
This list is cribbed from the SecurityEngineering wiki, plus Policy.