Privacy-friendly 'model' privacy policies

One of the aims of the SPION project is to promote the design of privacy-friendly 'model' privacy policies for Online Social Networks (OSNs). Building on the legal, social and technical research performed thus far, we have distilled a number of recommendations for the development of such policies. The objective of these recommendations is to promote privacy policies which are not only complete from a legal perspective, but also designed so that users can easily ascertain the level of privacy offered by the OSN.This report starts by providing a checklist of the minimum information which providers of OSN services must provide to their users. Next, it discusses current best practices regarding the presentation of privacy notices. This discussion is then followed by a number of specific guidelines which the drafters of privacy notices should take into account when developing these notices.