The news IEEE just released standard 7012-2025 for machine readable personal privacy terms , nicknamed MyTerms. MyTerms covers interactions and agreements between individuals and service providers they interact with on a network. It defines a way for personal privacy requirements to be expressed as standard-form contractual agreements. MyTerms is intended to replace today’s “notice and consent” pattern with a standardized, machine-readable contract handshake between an individual and a service provider. The standard considers individuals true first parties who can proffer privacy terms as contractual terms, typically through an automated agent acting on their behalf. The system relies on a neutral, non-business entity that hosts a bounded set of standard-form privacy agreements. These agreements are designed to be understandable and usable in practice by humans and by machines. They must be available in plain-language human-readable form, maintain legally meaningful wording, and a...
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