This isn’t to say that what I’ve begun proposing is necessarily much better, but that if modelled to appear somewhat similar to CC it might have some uptake because of the seemingly similar projects.

Something that I didn’t address in this post, but that is in Mary Rundle’s slides, is the question of international transfers of information. In my mind, I’d like to see this as just built into the broad framework, and then when hovering over the icon maybe reveal information about international transfers. It seems that everytime I think about what could be improved in a PC model additions are required to the model, which runs counter to the KISS principle that I see as necessary for a privacy commons to reach widespread adoption. Has Mehldau’s model continued to circulate through the German blogsphere?

This said, there remains a real doubt that large corporations will buy into this. They aren’t 100% needed for the system to work, but for it to be widely acknowledged some kind plan developed to spread the word (such as one putting proponents of the privacy commons into law classes). If young lawyers are aware of the PC, then maybe over a decade or so it could start to seep into corporate culture somewhat.

Of course this will remove the ability of a company to quietly slip in a few disclaimers (which lets face it, most want to do) without informing their user base so I can’t really see it coming into force. It’s no coincidence that both the creative commons and the GPL were not developed by corporations!