Two decades after the first Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, a group of privacy advocates, computer scientists, lawyers and others wrapped up a conference in San Jose on Friday with what they hope will be a milestone for the social Web: a “bill of rights” for social-network users.

It includes more than a dozen principles, set out in plain English, that range from requiring “honesty” and “clarity” for networks’ written privacy principles, to safeguarding users’ ability to quit a social service and remove their personal data. More>>