From Phillip Wolff comes these comments on my You First idea, a pledge by a site that it will respect our anonymity:

I’m drafting a version of this for job boards. It’s a job board’s business to share your information (resumes, CVs, profiles) with employers and employment agencies. This complicates things enormously.

Potential additions to your pledge:

– Transparency/FOIA. If it’s about you, you can see it when you want. We will share with you all the information we hold that describes you or is associated with your identity. This includes data provided by others.

– Two-Degrees Exposed. We’ll keep a list of those people/accounts/organizations that called up your information. You can see the list.

– Three-Degrees Transitive. Here are the policies agreed to by those third parties (employers, headhunters, et al) who call up your information as our customers. May be less stringent than our policies.

– Sunset. We will expire our copies of information about you according to rules we’ll publish. Old data won’t haunt you.

– Amnesia on demand. If you want us to purge our databases of information about you, we will, subject to legal obligations.

– Bind successors. If we sell off the business or a part of it, we’ll shred your data or force the new owners to abide by all this. See opt-in.

– Civil Rights. While we will cooperate with law enforcement, we won’t ebay your information. Our policies will defend your information like it was our own, requiring court orders or other lawful compulsion to turn over your data.

Excellent! Thanks, Phil.

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