From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs
Date: Wednesday December 13, 19100 @ 17:17
Author: fen
CVSWEB Options: -------------------
Main CVSWeb: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi
View this module: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs
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Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/openprivacy/htdocs
In directory openprivacy.org:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs
Modified Files:
index.shtml
Log Message:
added reputaion section
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml
CVSWEB Options: -------------------
CVSWeb: Annotate this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml?annotate=1.14
CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml?rev=1.14&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
CVSWeb: Diff to previous version: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml.diff?r1=1.14&r2=1.13
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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.13 openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.14
--- openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.13 Wed Dec 13 13:19:08 2000
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml Wed Dec 13 17:17:54 2000
@@ -5,8 +5,17 @@
An Open Source, cryptographically secure, transparent to the user,
distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing
-profile information (e.g., a marketplace for anonymous demographic profiles)
+profile information (e.g., a marketplace for anonymous demographic
+profiles).
+<p>
+
+In effect, OpenPrivacy is the first open platform that allows user control
+over personal data while simultaneously providing marketers with access to
+higher quality profile segments. Throughout the system, information may be
+shared with guaranteed personal privacy, creating at last a level playing
+field for the user, marketer and for infomediaries.
+
<P>
The current project is an Open Source Reputation Server that supports
@@ -17,16 +26,30 @@
<h3>Platform</h3>
+<h4>Secure, Privacy-enhanced Reputation Facility</h4>
+
+Reputations are the cornerstone to any virtual community. OpenPrivacy
+enables reputations to be used to enhance searching as well as to filter out
+unwanted information, all while maintaining complete user privacy. In
+addition, the reputation substrate supports the user to:
+
+<ul>
+ <li>accumulate valuable <i>reputation capital</i> for shared profile
+ information, ideas and publications without needing to divulge identity
+ <li>annotate any object with machine-readable opinions (grafts), thus
+ creating a general purpose and secure reputation facility
+ <li>enable opt-in profile/reputation owner contact by third parties
+</ul>
+
<h4>Open Source with Open APIs</h4>
+
OpenPrivacy is an open source platform with published XML data formats and
APIs that provide mechanisms to:
+
<ul>
<li>monitor and verify proper use of personal information
<li>post unauthenticated (heresy) profile information anonymously
<li>authenticate (through opt-in verification) profile segments
- <li>annotate any object with machine-readable opinions (grafts), thus
- creating a general purpose and secure reputation facility
- <li>enable opt-in profile/reputation owner contact by third parties
<li>most importantly, enable complete user control over her profile,
including providing the ability for the user to be able to
disassociate herself from any particular segment of profile
@@ -98,8 +121,6 @@
<ul>
<li>enjoy the benefits <i>(TBD: describe)</i> of personalized information
without loss of privacy
- <li>accumulate valuable <i>reputation capital</i> for shared profile
- information, ideas and publications without needing to divulge identity
<li>browse (if and when they chose) offers from businesses and marketers
<li>respond to offers directly or through third party
<a href="/bibliography.shtml#infomediary">infomediaries</a>
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