Privacy/Reviews/Pancake
Contents
Document Overview
| Feature/Product: | Pancake |
| Projected Feature Freeze Date: | tbd |
| Product Champions: | Stuart Parmenter, Stefan Arentz |
| Privacy Champions: | Sid Stamm, Tom Lowenthal, Jishnu Menon |
| Security Contact: | Curtis Koenig |
| Document State: | [NEW] documenting data flow |
Timeline:
| Architectural Overview: | 17-Aug-2011 |
| Recommendation Meeting: | (date TBD) |
| Wrap-up Meeting: | (if necessary) |
Architecture
In this section, the product's architecture is described. Any individual components or actors are identified, their "knowledge" or what data they store is identified, and data flow between components and external entities is described.
The main objective of this feature/product is: (describe the goals of the feature/product here)
Design Documents: Link to any design or architectural documents here.
Components
Describe any major components in the system and how they interact. Also include any third-party APIs (those Mozilla does not control) and what type of data is sent or received via those APIs.
Pancake Server
This component does A, B and C and interacts with component Y to do D.
The tables below simply summarize the data encountered by this component.
Stored Data:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| data type | where stored |
Communication with Component Y
| Direction | Message | Data | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| In: | message 1 | types of data received from component Y with the message | |
| Out: | message 2 | types of data sent to component Y with the message |
Data-Export Add-On
This component does A, B and C and interacts with component Y to do D.
The tables below simply summarize the data encountered by this component.
Stored Data:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| data type | where stored |
Communication with Component Y
| Direction | Message | Data | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| In: | message 1 | types of data received from component Y with the message | |
| Out: | message 2 | types of data sent to component Y with the message |
Thumbnailer
This component does A, B and C and interacts with component Y to do D.
The tables below simply summarize the data encountered by this component.
Stored Data:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| data type | where stored |
Communication with Component Y
| Direction | Message | Data | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| In: | message 1 | types of data received from component Y with the message | |
| Out: | message 2 | types of data sent to component Y with the message |
Spider
This component does A, B and C and interacts with component Y to do D.
The tables below simply summarize the data encountered by this component.
Stored Data:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| data type | where stored |
Communication with Component Y
| Direction | Message | Data | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| In: | message 1 | types of data received from component Y with the message | |
| Out: | message 2 | types of data sent to component Y with the message |
User Data Risk Minimization
In this section, the privacy champion will identify areas of user data risk and recommendations for minimizing the risk.
Alignment with Privacy Operating Principles
In this section, the privacy champion will identify how the feature lines up with Mozilla's privacy operating principles.
See Also: Privacy/Roadmap_2011#Operating_Principles:
Principle: Transparency / No Surprises
(How the feature addresses this)
Recommendations: (what can be improved)
Principle: Real Choice
Recommendations:
Principle: Sensible Defaults
Recommendations:
Principle: Limited Data
Recommendations:
Follow-up Tasks and tracking
| What | Who | Bug | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| [NEW] Initial Overview Discussion | ? | Meeting time TBD |
