Monday, August 23, 2010

Consent can't be 'informed' without 'information'

In its OAuth consent flow, Google refers to the requesting party (Flickr in this instance) as the generic 'third party service'

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It can get worse than that. When provisioning apps in the Google Apps Marketplace the domain admin gets faced with 'this application would like to access contacts/docs/email/etc.' without going into any details about what it's going to do with that data.

This is why I think we need training wheels before we can have trust.

Paul Madsen said...

wrt UI/UX 'training wheels' Agreed, currently Google throws a unicycle at the user and asks them to juggle plates.

I started to collect these a while back

http://paulmadsen.posterous.com/consent-anti-pattern-0

http://paulmadsen.posterous.com/bad-url-bad