Privacy is basic. Yet experienced designers still break our privacy expectations when trying to add value. jaxtr launched cafe jaxtr, a new tool for exploring their social conversation space. Stuart is one of Skype Journal's founders. Stuart's angry at jaxtr for showing his online behavior to people in the cafe. Breaching trust is bad. Bad for the truster, worse for the breacher's business.

The DataPortability Project's Policy Action Group is making it easier to hit the right privacy and authorization notes every time. Join the DP Policy AG Skype chat for live conversation, the Policy mailing list, and a new team wiki.

One strategy I'm proposing: a pre-flight privacy checklist for designers. I don't know all the questions you should ask before committing a design, but maybe we can make the list together. Checklists produce results for doctors and pilots, maybe it can work for social media architects.

More on privacy from Skype Journal:

• The Bavarian Intercept Proves Skype is Secure
• Are you a human? We need to CAPTCHA IM bots
• The Skype Social Network: Three Values
• PresenceNext: Authorization by Negotiation, central to Presence 2.0
• Berjikly: Self-Disclosure in VoIM
• Rights? In Social Media?
• Five things missing in the Participation Ladder
• Privacy and Prejudice: An Interruption 2.0 Manifesto for the AlwaysOn Lifestyle
• Presence: Hidden in public view
• FT: Zennström confirms Skype filters text; questions he would not answer
• What do people put in their Skype profiles?
• What will you do to protect your webcam privacy?