Privacy of Personal Information

Privacy and security information services which may help users to decide on which personal data to disclose to whom. In addition the awareness of users about privacy and security risks should be enhanced by implementing (and standardizing) the Meshup services.

Public and Private Information (PAPI) is a data interchange pecification that describes unique web-users - individuals or groups - information for communication among cooperating systems "cooperation" may be achieved by conformance to the PAPI and other specifications).

The data is exchanged:

(1) via external specification, i.e., only PAPI user coding bindings are used while some other data communication method is mutually agreed upon by ata exchange participants,

(2) via control transfer mechanism to facilitate data interchange, e.g., PAPI API bindings, or

(3) via data and control transfer mechanisms, e.g., PAPI protocol bindings.