Thread · 2 tweets · 23 Mar 2021

This slide from @hartzog captures well why I would like to see browsers (and other user agents) held to fiduciary duties. Browsers are not just any other app — users are in a particularly vulnerable relationship and rely on their trustworthy mediation.

That's different from apps in general. To quote Tamar Frankel: "It is wrong to injure anyone. But it is more reprehensible to injure someone who cannot protect himself, as an entrustor in a fiduciary relation is." That's the standard to which user agents should be held.