Trustmark

Full Title

The purpose of a Trustmark is to give the users of a web site sufficient information to make an informed decision about whether the site is trustworthy.

Context

The internet is currently a cesspool of malcontents and criminals that is little different from the wild west of the US in 1870.

The goals of this effort is to enable:

1. The user can unambiguously determine the real-world identity of any web site that has any pretense to be trustworthy.
2. The user knows the context that the site operates by the federation(s) to which the site has subscribed.
3. The user can clearly determine the purpose of the web site, especially in regard to the intent of the site to use their personal information.
4. The user can stipulate their own conditions on which they are will to interoperate with the site.

Problems

• Users do not pay attention to existing Trustmarks.
• Existing Trustmarks are trivial to copy on sites that are not trusted.

Solution

The following are the

References and Coordination

• Much more detail is on the page Trustmark Evolving Design Pattern, which may not be fully up-to-date.
• This page is dedicated to collecting information about Trust in a digital environment.