50205 - Find privacy links

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Find good links for more info on "Understanding Privacy".

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

e.g. eff.org, dmoz

Comment 2

[verah (gone)]

Ben -- I am currently writing a comprehensive online Help doc on the subject of 
Privacy and Security. It contains a number of links to other information. It 
will reside on the user's local machine so no connection to a server is 
necessary to read it. It will be ready on Monday 8/28; sorry for the delay but I 
keep getting interrupted by numerous other things! Since this document will soon 
be available I don't think it's necessary to add links to Steve's document.

Oh -- also, my new document will be accessed via Tasks->Privacy and Security as 
well as Help->Help Contents, and the Learn More button in the Cookies pref 
dialog. Steve's document will be linked to my document.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

mass-accept to stop annoying bugzilla spam.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

verah, where can I find the docs?

Comment 5

[verah (gone)]

Attachment: "Understanding Privacy & Security" (content only; no TOC)

Comment 6

[verah (gone)]

You can't find the actual files in a mozilla (non-commercial) build yet, since  
my document hasn't been hooked up to Tasks:Privacy&Security or to the button in 
the Cookies Prefs dialog. However, I've attached my document to this bug. Since 
it uses a style sheet you might want to edit the header and remove the 
stylesheet reference. Let me know if you have any problems reading it.

Comment 7

[David Krause]

verah, your document seemed pretty good.  I think we should also have a links
section for more information about the topic.  I will try to find some good links.

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

Qa > ckritzer

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

.

Comment 10

[ckritzer (gone)]

Ben, I'm seeing the document available in both Commercial & Non-commercial 
builds via the chrome:// url above and under Tasks:Privacy and 
Security:Understanding Privacy.  Are you okay with this bug being marked fixed & 
verified as such, or are there other things you'd like to hold it open for?

I'll wait until end-of-day Friday to mark fixed & verified if I don't hear from 
you.  If you get this message later than that, and feel the need to re-open, 
please do.

Comment 11

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

ckritzer, the document you refer to contains no links at all. We should provide
some good links, no users sincerely interested into privacy can get more
information and find a community etc.. Something like <http://www.eff.org> or
<http://www.heise.de/tp/english/>, but I'd like to list more such sites. I
currently don't have good ones, though.

Comment 12

[ckritzer (gone)]

Ahhhhhh....I misunderstood context of "privacy links".  I thought you were 
refering to links through menus, buttons, etc *to* our privacy doc, and not 
ones you would like to see *in* the privacy doc.  

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Ben. 
-Kritzer

Comment 13

[Michael Gabriel]

anything new on this ?
my list would be:
http://www.eff.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/privacy_policy_ovr.asp
http://wp.netscape.com/security/basics/index.html
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy
http://www.epic.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/index-privacy.html
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/

Comment 14

[Michael Gabriel]

need more ?

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I was looking more for insider sites (but I didn't know them), but I guess your
collection is OK.

Actually, that page is gone now in the trunk, I think, only available in Help.

Comment 16

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Closing per last comment