So, it is my first week at Mozilla Labs; I picked a great first week - the launch of Firefox 4 for both desktop and mobile. One of the big topics for Mozilla is Identity and Privacy. After all, "Firefox answers to no one but you." However, digging into identity (above the layer of authentication and authorization) is a tricky business. This book is a very interesting framework in which to think of identity. It is intuitive social science: we all have expectations about how our personal information should be used, based on the context of use; when our expectations are not met, we react poorly; when our expectations are stressed, but not broken, expectations may evolve, especially to encapsulate new technologies. Contextual Integrity is the catch phrase to encompass this idea...and the idea that identity/Privacy is not about hiding your information, but about its appropriate use. The difficulty is turning a social science into a computer science. There has been lo