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On 5/5/2014 9:48 AM, Jim Bursch wrote:
> I'm working on an online identity/profile service called NameClaim --
> a registry of names backed by bitcoin -- and as I was writing the
> privacy statement, it struck me that this is use case for darkwallet.
> Here's the privacy statement:
>
> http://nameclaim.name/index.php?view=privacy
>
> Privacy policies are promises that cannot be enforced. This is not a
> privacy policy. You are responsible for protecting your own privacy,
> and we are glad to help you do so. This is a statement of principles.
>
> For the purpose of discussing privacy, there are three things:
>
> 1. You
> 2. Data-About-You
> 3. Everyone else, including their machines
>
> You and Data-About-You are two seperate things. You are not your name
> or any other data, and that is true of every living human being.
>
> As much as you would like to, you cannot control Data-About-You that
> is not in your physical possession. As soon as data passes from you to
> someone or something else, you have lost control of it.
>
> Data-About-You is worthless if only you possess it (it may be
> important to you, but it is worthless). Data-About-You is only
> valuable when others are in possession of it.
>
> When the link between You and Data-About-You is broken, the data
> becomes worthless.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> How can you realize the full value of Data-About-You if you lose
> control of it the moment that you share it, which you have to do for
> it to have any value at all?
>
> The answer is plausible deniability, which is your ability to render
> the data worthless by denying its relationship to you.
>
> Your name claim is your proxy identity, and you animate it with data
> and the backing of your bitcoin. Through the NameClaim API, others can
> relate to your proxy, and as long as you are animating your proxy,
> they are relating to you, and the data is valuable. Your privacy can
> never be violated as long as you have the ability to deny your
> association with the proxy. Or, to put it another way, if you claim
> your privacy has been violated, it is only because you are choosing to
> maintain your association with data that is not in your control.
>
> When you stake a name claim and attach data to that name, you are
> making a claim that the data represents you, and the strength of your
> claim is determined by the amount of bitcoin that you set aside to
> back that claim. The digital signature from that bitcoin address is
> what links you to the name claim and attached data.
>
> You can also abandon the name claim and deny the relationship between
> you and the data, thus rendering the data worthless. However, in order
> to maintain plausible deniability, you have to make sure that you
> cannot be linked to that bitcoin address by any other means. The
> extent to which you can deny ownership of the bitcoin address is the
> extent to which you can protect your privacy.
>
>
>
>
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