We know that as we submit information to the cloud, we agree to various explicit and implicit agreements with the recipient regarding permissions for that information. Currently, the permissions system is highly inefficient. We get these TOS agreements and privacy statements that change from time to time, but we don't care because we didn't read that long ass legalese in the first place. Sometimes we read about it on digg, and realize a little too late that facebook is headed by a moron who will sell his users for 30 pieces of silver.
Why don't we make the system more efficient? Why don't we engineer a better system?
I'm proposing this:
Create a plainspeak standard for different permissions given in an information exchange.
Create metadata for each specific category of permission, allowing permissions to be related to others for meaningful retrievals of permissions in different contexts.
(I know you Net Neutrality people are going to be up in arms about this, but) Create the first law to regulate the internet, imposing the communication of this data in any exchange.
What does everyone think? Is this a good approach to our growing concerns about privacy. It seems to be working well in many other sectors, such as digital copyrights.
