Re: Consent

At 10:36 AM -0400 8/23/01, Adam Shostack wrote:
> > Needed-disclosure and mandated-disclosure overlap in meaning. Both
>> imply an obligation. After all, the police need to know where you
>> are to respond to your 911 call. Is that a mandated-disclosure or a
>> needed-disclosure? If my agreement with AAA says that every time I
>> call for roadside assistance my location is transmitted to their
>> dispatcher is that mandated or needed?
>
>Firstly, I agree that my definitions are imperfect, and can use some
>work

S'ok. Some would say that everything I write could use some work....

Readers shouldn't trip over the names. Let's try this. To put them
in terms of 2026 definitions,

A mandated-disclosure is one where the sender MUST deliver the
location with tbd precision. A needed-disclosure is one where the
sender SHOULD deliver the location with tbd precision. Is this
moving in the right direction?

>
>> It's probably more important that the location that is transmitted by
>> the sender is encoded in such a way that it can only be used for the
>> purpose the sender allows. If I call 1-800-find-gas, I may not want
>> to receive a list of fast-food joints along with the list of nearby
>> gas stations -- or maybe I do.
>
>I've been playing with the idea that we should encourage location to
>be encoded in tuples of (location, privacy-info), where privacy-info
>includes ways to talk about the various fip requirements.

I like this.

-- 
john noerenberg
jwn2@qualcomm.com
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Peace of mind isn't at all superficial, really.  It's the whole thing.
   That which produces it is good maintenance; that which disturbs it
   is poor maintenance.
   -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------