diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index ba4c178..2fffb96 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -782,8 +782,8 @@
Due to privacy concerns, revealing public information through [=services=], such as social media accounts, personal websites, and email addresses, is -discouraged. Further exploration of privacy concerns can be found in -[=#keep-personal-data-private=] and [=#service-privacy=]. The information +discouraged. Further exploration of privacy concerns can be found in sections +[[[#keep-personal-data-private]]] and [[[#service-privacy]]]. The information associated with [=services=] is often service specific. For example, the information associated with an encrypted messaging service can express how to initiate the encrypted link before messaging begins. @@ -2972,6 +2972,19 @@
+If a [=controller document=] publishes a [=service=] intended for authentication +or authorization of the [=subject=] (see Section [[[#services]]]), it is the +responsibility of the [=service=] provider, [=subject=], and/or requesting party +to comply with the requirements of the authentication and/or authorization +protocols supported by that [=service=] endpoint. +
++The ability for a [=controller=] to optionally express at least one [=service=] in the [=controller document=] increases their control and agency. +Each additional endpoint in the [=controller document=] adds privacy risk either +due to correlation, such as across endpoint descriptions, or because the +[=services=] are not protected by an authorization mechanism, or both. +
++[=Controller documents=] are often public and, since they are standardized, will +be stored and indexed efficiently. This +risk is increased if [=controller documents=] are published to immutable +[=verifiable data registries=]. Access to a history of the [=controller +documents=] referenced by a URL enables a form of traffic analysis made more +efficient through the use of standards. +
++The degree of additional privacy risk caused by including multiple [=services=] in +one [=controller document=] can be difficult to estimate. Privacy harms are +typically unintended consequences. URLs can refer to documents, [=services=], +schemas, and other things that might be associated with individual people, +households, clubs, and employers — and correlation of their [=services=] +could become a powerful surveillance and inference tool. An example of +this potential harm can be seen when multiple common country-level top level +domains such as `https://example.co.uk` might be used to infer the approximate +location of the [=subject=] with a greater degree of probability. +
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