Me want cookie! Towards automated and transparent data governance on the Web
Keywords: Cookie, Browser, Data Terms of Use, ODRL, DPV, Negotiation, Data Governance, P3P, Do Not Track, Reasoning, Negotiation, Solid, Web, Agents
TL;DR: We present our vision of how ODRL, Data Terms of Use (DToU) and DPV can be used to to well-describe, and allow negotiation over the terms of use that are applied to cookies in the browser.
Abstract: This paper presents a sociotechnical vision for managing personal data, including cookies, within Web
browsers. We first present our vision for a future of semi-automated data governance on the Web, using
policy languages to describe data terms of use, and having browsers act on behalf of users to enact
policy-based controls. Then, we present an overview of the technical research required to prove that
existing policy languages express a sufficient range of concepts for describing cookie policies on the
Web today. We view this work as a stepping stone towards a future of semi-automated data governance
at Web-scale, which in the long term will also be used by next-generation Web technologies such as Web
agents and Solid.
Submission Number: 6
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