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March 22, 2005 |
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RSS and Privacy Risks David T.S. Fraser [PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law] picked up an interesting post on the impact of RSS on privacy issues. Because you can subscribe to an RSS feed without giving any personal information, it is superior, from a privacy perspective, to opt in mailing lists where some information usually has to be disclosed:
The Information Security News - Blog Archive - Editorial: How RSS can reduce privacy risks:
"Offering web site content updates via an RSS feed rather than by opt-in email can reduce the risk of privacy exposures. Because subscribing to an RSS feed is a 'pull' technology, it avoids the collection of personal information (email address, name, etc.) that would normally get collected in order to maintain a subscription to a site update alert, newsletter or digest..."
8:19:59 PM 
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© Copyright 2005 Michael Girard.
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