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Re: [ietf-privacy] Is there an official working definition for Privacy Online?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Thu, 16 April 2015 20:55 UTC

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On Thu 2015-04-16 10:51:48 -0400, Fred Yeboah wrote:

> Can some help me with the official working definition of Online Privacy 
> as used by IETF-Privacy group?

This is a nuanced question without a short answer.

You might approach it by reading https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6973,
which outlines some of the ways that people within the IETF think about
privacy.

        --dkg

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