Open Privacy Manifesto

Our sense of privacy is predicated on the perception of our right to choose. Our right to be an individual when making our choices.

Our expectation of privacy is the assumption that we get to choose what we divulge about ourselves and what we choose not to divulge.

Our privacy is not about what someone else dictates as private but what we choose to keep private or conversely what we choose to make 'public'.

In order to implement a system that honors an individual's expectation of privacy it must

• Affirm that all participant information be kept private until the participant specifies that a given unit of information can be made public.
• Or, clearly state that by associating with a system the participant is choosing to make all activity associated information public.
• Clearly state and guarantee that all meta-information is and will be kept anonymous.