Data Portability Policy Metaphors. Rough ideas for the DataPortability Project EULA/ToS Task Force.
What are the Portability parts of a service’s End User License or Terms of Service?
What data portability promises do we* expect from Internet sites and services?
(We* the people, tribes, families, organizations, and societies)
How best to organize and explain those expectations?
1. Portability
is a Rose
Data Portability Policy Metaphors
Rough ideas for the DataPortability Project
EULA/ToS Task Force
By Phil Wolff
2. What are the What data portability
Portability
parts of a
promises do we* expect
service’s End from Internet sites and
User License services?
or Terms of
We* the people, tribes,
Service?
families, organizations, and
societies
How best to organize and
explain those expectations?
3. Metaphors 4 frames
build on
Social
existing
cultural Psychological
structures and Legal
human
experiences Political
4. What’s a meta Portability is
for? Our relationship
Life cycles
The new privacy policy
a universal disclosure standard
Identity’s Creative Commons
license
simpler policies unleash social
activity
Net Neutrality
consumer and citizen protection
principles rebalance power
5. “I'm looking for metaphor
elements that make
portability easier to
understand, to argue for,
and to stir people up and
connect emotionally.”
7. A relationship 1. Open Arms
in three stages
2. Ever Fresh
3. Graceful Exit
start sustain end
time
8. Open Arms Emotion
Beginnings, welcome, curiosity,
fun, discovery
Actions
Move in with all of your things
Learn everything about each
other
Payoffs
Better understood relationship
Services do more with more
info
9. Open Arms We are full of hope when we
start, digging deep to learn
about each other, exploring
ways to work together,
developing trust, making
promises. We want some
quick joy, validating further
investment and engagement.
10. Open Arms “When you come to our site,
bring all of yourself.
We'll help you put it to use
in our context.
We'll make it easy to come.
We'll keep it safe.
We'll respect ownership as
you see it.
“What you add while you are
here
will join your collection
and be portable in turn.”
11. Ever Fresh Emotion
Comfort, Trust, Familiarity, Getting
Things Done
Actions
Keep the relationship going
Keep up with my onlife when I’m
not at your site
Keep the rest of my onlife
informed of what we do together
Resolve problems together
Payoffs
Update once, Enjoy everywhere
12. Ever Fresh “We will consume and share
your onlife with other
services and you. So
everywhere you go, you have
all of yourself, as
appropriate. As we change,
we'll let you know.”
13. Graceful Emotion
Fear, anxiety, concern, anger
Exit Actions
Notice, Redress, Recovery
Migrate and download my onlife
Completeness: all my digital
debris: stuff, friends, conversations
Payoffs
Confidence earlier in the
relationship
Continue your onlife without
disruption
14. Graceful All relationships finish.
Exit With a little forethought it
can be less painful, leaving
us with good memories and
the ability to move on with
our lives.
Graceful Exit is your online
prenuptial agreement.
15. Graceful Six elements to minimize the damage
of forced eviction.
Exit 1. Intervene quickly.
2. Prevent by building exit
strategies into products from
the start.
3. Commit by building Graceful
Exit into EULAs and TOSs.
4. Insure to spread risk and fund
prevention and remediation.
5. Advocate for consumers and
netizens.
6. Enforce through legal means.
16. Relationship Pros
metaphor Time stages
Pros & Cons Human contexts, not technical
or legal ones
Emotional overlay
Prior art from other kinds of
relationships
Cons
Corny
A little Cosmo Quiz
18. Portability Both P’s were triggered by
is the new explosive growth of people
Privacy using the web
Framed problems, solutions
and opportunities
Universal de facto adoption
took five years
19. The Privacy Well understood structure
Policy is what data we keep
well what we do with it
known how we protect it
and what you can do
20. The Privacy Peer pressure to have a
Policy in privacy policy
action Privacy is a trustmark
Disclosure more important
than specific pledges
Pledges varies by industry,
jurisdiction, risk
Link from every home page
21. The Needs a clear,
Portability understandable structure
Policy Disclosure first
22. Privacy Pros
Metaphor
Established, Proven
Pros & Cons
Workflow for creating
policies is understood
Cons
Looks like work
Comes from risk avoidance
more than opportunity
seizure
24. Identity’s Creative Commons simplified
CC license intellectual property licensing
Focus
Most common uses
Most common concerns
Three yes/no questions, eight
combinations
Iconography for visual quick
read
25. Identity’s Can the DPP do for social
CC license data portability what CC did
for intellectual property?
What are the most
common uses? Most
common concerns?
Can we reduce them to a
handful of binary
questions?
26. Portability as Pros
CC License Highly effective within some
Metaphor communities
Pros & Cons Objective symbolism
Cons
Applied to a fairly static domain
(intellectual property) instead
of a rapidly changing one
(social media)
Strong, famous evangelists
behind launch and first five
years
27. 4.
Portability is Net Neutrality
consumer and citizen protection principles
rebalance power
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31.
32. Portability Net Neutrality was framed as
as Net Consumer protection
Civil liberty / Democracy 2.0
Neutrality
Consumer protection
ISPs exercisingmonopoly
power to control what you see
and say, to make more money
Freedom
ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to
interfere with speech or action
33. Portability Standing up for the average
as person
Consumer Get back control over your
Power online communication and
information and
relationships
34. Portability Freedom to come and go
as a Civil without your onlife held
Liberty hostage by a site
Meaningful freedom to
Assemble
Speak
Due process
Seek meaningful redress
35. Portability as Pros
Net Neutrality
Defines right and wrong
Metaphor
Pros & Cons Emotional ties to powers,
liberties, freedoms
David v. Goliath
Cons
Confrontational
36. Picking the Best of Metaphors
for a Portability Policy
Finding the Rose
37. What can Our relationship
Life cycles
Portability Emotional connection
Policies take The new privacy policy
from each of Disclosure standards
these Ease of Generation
metaphors? Identity’s Creative Commons license
Find the right dimensions
Committed evangelists
Net Neutrality
Acknowledge power is out of balance
Rights and Freedoms are easily understood
Consumer protection makes proponents
look virtuous, opponents look evil
38.
39. See also: http://blog.DataPortability.org
http://wiki.DataPortability.org
http://twitter.com/dataportability
http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/mIRE
Google groups
LinkedIn
40. About me Phil Wolff
sits on the DataPortability
Project Steering Action Group
Contact info: evanwolf on
twitter and Skype.
editor@SkyepJournal.com
+1-510-444-8234
Disclaimer: my thoughts, not
necessarily those of the DPP
(http://dataportability.org)