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Encourage purpose-built APIs, fix #175 (#295)
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"href": "https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/a-relational-theory-of-data-governance",
"publisher": "Yale Law Journal",
"id": "relational-governance"
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"web-without-3p-cookies": {
"title": "Improving the web without third-party cookies",
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"Amy Guy"
],
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the same events it would use to make the page interactive, so we can't block this
information access either.</li>
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<p> These principles don't describe exactly how to distinguish acceptable
information from information we'd rather not expose. API designers instead
need to balance the harm to users from exposing information against the harm
to users from blocking that exposure. When in doubt, designers should ensure
that different user agents can help their users balance the costs in
different ways.</p>
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<p>Some functionality of the web has historically been provided using functional primitives (e.g.
third-party cookies) that can undermine people's privacy. As explained in <em>Improving the web
without third-party cookies</em> ([<cite><a class="bibref" data-link-type="biblio" href="#bib-web-without-3p-cookies" title="Improving the web without third-party cookies">web-without-3p-cookies</a></cite>]), "<em>It is better to approach [these
use cases] with replacement technologies that are designed-for-purpose and built to respect user
privacy.</em>"</p>
<p>The following subsections discuss how to review an API proposal that exposes data that
provides a new way to infer each of the above categories of information. They explain how
to <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/#leave-the-web-better">leave the web better than you
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<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674035072"><cite>Understanding Privacy</cite></a>. Daniel Solove. Harvard University Press. URL: <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674035072">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674035072</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-unsanctioned-tracking">[UNSANCTIONED-TRACKING]</dt><dd>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/unsanctioned-tracking/"><cite>Unsanctioned Web Tracking</cite></a>. Mark Nottingham. W3C. 17 July 2015. TAG Finding. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/unsanctioned-tracking/">http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/unsanctioned-tracking/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-web-without-3p-cookies">[web-without-3p-cookies]</dt><dd>
<a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-without-3p-cookies/"><cite>Improving the web without third-party cookies</cite></a>. Amy Guy. W3C. URL: <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-without-3p-cookies/">https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-without-3p-cookies/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-why-privacy">[Why-Privacy]</dt><dd>
<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/why-privacy-matters-9780190939045?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;"><cite>Why Privacy Matter</cite></a>. Neil Richards. Oxford University Press. URL: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/why-privacy-matters-9780190939045?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/why-privacy-matters-9780190939045?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;</a>
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