On bringing clarity to privacy policies

If Privacy Icons become widely adopted (and I think Mozilla is in a unique position to help make that happen) then the correlation of good companies using the icons and bad companies not using the icons becomes rather strong. If a privacy policy doesn’t include any icons it’s synonymous with that policy making no guarantees for not using your data for evil. The absence of Privacy Icons becomes stigmatic.

Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, on how browsers and companies could make privacy policies more user-friendly through a “bolt-on” machine-readable icon system, similar to Creative Commons. [Via Webmonkey]