Intel privacy license - suggested post for IP

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: Miller1, John S
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:18 PM
To: 'David Farber'
Cc: Hoffman, David Legal
Subject: Intel privacy license - suggested post for IP



Professor Farber,



I am attaching below (and as a word document) information regarding  
an open-source-style license aimed at preserving information privacy  
that Intel has been working on with a group of privacy law experts.   
David Hoffman discussed this concept with you when you were in Santa  
Clara back in September, and you were receptive to posting  
information regarding the privacy license on your IP list at the time  
– would you still be willing to do so?  It would really be great if  
we were able to solicit feedback on this concept from the readers of  
your IP.  Per your suggestion, we have requested that your readers  
reply with comments to the IP list – would you be willing to forward  
to us any comments you receive that you deem not worthy of  
publication to the IP?



Although I think the suggested post is fairly self-explanatory, I’d  
be happy to answer any additional questions you might have regarding  
the privacy license concept, or to address any issues you might have  
concerning the post itself.  For your information, all of the  
individuals mentioned in the text have expressly authorized that  
their names be used for this purpose.



Thank You and Best Regards,



John Miller



______________________________________________
John S. Miller, Esq. | Privacy and Security Policy Manager
Corporate Technology Group | Technical Policy and Standards

Intel Corporation | JF2-96 | 2111 NE 25th Ave | Hillsboro, OR 97124
direct: 503 712 5082 | mobile: 646 345 8716 | fax: 503 264 1578
email: john.s.miller1 () intel com


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Intel is pleased to announce an open-source-style license aimed at  
preserving information privacy.  Intel has been working on this  
license language with a group of privacy law experts, in connection  
with Intel’s release of a location-aware software platform.  Our  
collective vision is for the privacy-protective terms of the license  
to be eventually adopted by the open-source community, structured as  
an addendum to open-source license(s).



The concept of adapting the open source licensing model to encourage  
social norms protective of end user privacy grew out of conversations  
among a group of researchers, academics, and lawyers. The group  
includes academics at several universities, including UC Berkeley and  
the University of Washington, several prominent lawyers and Intel  
Corporation, including: Deirdre K. Mulligan, a Clinical Professor of  
Law at Boalt Hall School of Law, Director of the Samuelson Law,  
Technology and Public Policy Clinic, and a Director of the Berkeley  
Center for Law and Technology; Pamela Samuelson, the Richard M.  
Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at Boalt Hall, and a Director  
of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology; Elliot Maxwell, a  
Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University and  
a Distinguished Research Fellow of the eBusiness Research Center of  
Pennsylvania State University; Becky Burr, a partner at the law firm  
of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; and Paul M. Schwartz, a  
Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law  
(Boalt Hall).  Working together, we have devised an innovative  
approach to protecting social norms around privacy as location-aware  
computing evolves.



This group came together soon after Intel’s development of a location- 
aware computing technology.  We collectively became concerned about  
potential misuses of location-aware technology, particularly in cases  
of vulnerable people like battered spouses.  Intel’s goal was to  
release this technology in open source, but wanted to discuss the  
possibilities of adapting the open-source licensing model to  
encourage social norms protective of end user privacy.



In discussions that took place over the past year and a half, the  
group devised the idea of adding an addendum to an open-source  
license.  This addendum, as currently drafted, discloses to the end  
user what information is being collected and how long the information  
will be kept, and requires that the developer incorporate opt-out  
capability into the software systems based on the licensed code.



Further, the addendum is designed to be adaptable to different  
technology areas, e.g. location-aware computing, medical device  
software, etc.  But we do expect that it will undergo various  
iterations as we work to continuously improve the terms of the addendum.



Currently Intel has drafted a software license by attaching the terms  
of the privacy addendum to the text of the Eclipse Public License.   
Intel is releasing software it calls POLS (Privacy Observant Location  
System) under this license.  Because we would  prefer to release our  
software under an “approved” open-source license, we are currently  
initiating discussions with the Open Source Initiative to encourage  
the adoption of the Privacy Amendment as an acceptable amendment for  
use in conjunction with OSI’s approved open source licenses (as  
appropriate).



To that end, the group plans to work with OSI and the open source  
community to further refine the privacy addendum, and to ultimately  
get to a point where the privacy addendum can serve as an “OSI  
approved” addendum to be added to OSI-approved open source licenses  
for technology implicating end-user privacy concerns, and made  
available to the open source community at large.  We believe this is  
an innovative approach to addressing privacy issues. We believe that  
a bottoms-up effort to encourage the development of privacy-sensitive  
social norms is necessary and in fact critical for both privacy and  
public adoption of the technology.  We post this information here,  
with the hope that others will see value in this approach, and pursue  
similar methods for providing privacy protection for users of  
technology.



More information is available at: http:// 
privacyaddendum.seattle.intel-research.net/.  Please reply to this  
list with comments.





 

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