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The Digital Standard is an ambitious, community-led effort to build a framework to test and rate products and services on the basis of privacy, security, and data practices.
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Data Control: Unintended Users #46

Open royapakzad opened 7 years ago

royapakzad commented 7 years ago

The current indicators mostly focus on the buyer as the only user who should have control over the data but, what about guests? Children? Other members of the households? This concern especially applies to most of the IoT appliances or personal assistant devices. For example, Google Home addressed this concern on its privacy policy but Alexa has not mentioned this issue at all. Google Home and Guests: https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7177221?hl=en&ref_topic=7173611

digitalstandard-bot commented 7 years ago

Thank you for helping shape the Digital Standard. Addressing privacy, security, and data issues in the marketplace requires a community-driven response.

The partners meet once every 3 months to review pull requests. The next meeting is scheduled for mid-August.

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j-br0 commented 7 years ago

I think this is a good observation --- do you have any suggestions for wording to add to the standard to address the issue?

TatevSarg commented 6 years ago

Users can control how their information is used to target advertising: This indicator measures whether the service provider provides users a choice about whether it can use their information for targeted advertising. In addition to this, we may also need an indicator measuring whether users can control the sharing of their information with third parties for advertising. Despite offering controls on its own services, if the company shares user data for advertising by default that means users still lack control over use of their data for targeted advertising on other websites.