Previous article,"Meaningful Consent and Information Sharing Standard Label"We have discussed how it is unrealistic to assume that users read, understand, and agree to privacy policies and terms of service, and have introduced the "Information Sharing Standard Labels" that are being standardized by the Kantara Initiative as a way to improve this.
The information sharing standard label is essentially something that should be provided by information providers, and in itself does not evaluate the quality of their privacy policies or terms of use.
Today, a related project is"I didn't read the Terms of Service (ToS-DR)"Let me introduce the project.
The ToS-DR project is a crowdsourced project that reads the terms of service (ToS) of each vendor, rates them on a five-point scale for several evaluation items, and graphically represents them. For example, it would look like this for twitter, which everyone loves.
Green icons represent good points, and orange icons represent bad points. This seems to be an average level among modern web services. In contrast, Twitpic is a parade of red x icons, which are worse than the orange icons, as shown below, making it a pretty bad service.
On the other hand, Google is often criticized for various reasons, but as you can see, it's actually doing relatively well.
What do you think? It's easy to understand, right?
The main difference between the Information Sharing Standard Label and ToS-DR is that the former is a self-report by the provider company, while the latter is a third-party assessment.
Naturally, self-reporting can be more responsive and cover a wider range of situations. However, if the evaluation is done by self-reporting, it will not be very reliable. On the other hand, third-party evaluation is much more reliable, but there will be limitations in coverage and responsiveness. Also, the impact of differences in what is displayed will be different. Since the "Information Sharing Standard Label" is self-reported, if it is intentionally violated, it will be considered a tort by the service provider. On the other hand, the latter will not be. Therefore, it can be said that the Information Sharing Standard Label is higher in terms of corrective ability. However, ToS-DR is the clear winner in terms of ease of understanding.
So I think both services are necessary.
ToS-DR is currently running as a project until September, after which the future of the project will be discussed. It seems like a very interesting project, so I'll keep watching it.
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