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"MyTerms" draft standard wants to fix what Do Not Track couldn't | A new IEEE standard proposes machine-readable contracts for digital consent
The IEEE P7012 draft introduces a new standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms, offering a novel way for users to express their privacy preferences to third-party...
Nicknamed MyTerms by Doc Searls – who chairs the standard's working group – this approach is founded on the idea that online services should agree to users' terms, not the other way around. The MyTerms draft – nicknamed similarly to how the IEEE 802.11 standard became known as "Wi-Fi" – aims to give internet users true agency in their online interactions, Searls said. It focuses solely on the machine-readable layer of these interactions, allowing websites, browser developers, CMS makers, and other stakeholders the freedom to implement their own solutions in pursuit of the same goal.
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