While TRUSTe says it will avoid symbols such as smiling faces that could imply approval of a site, there is a risk with such a system that an important part of a particular privacy policy will be missed if it cannot be categorised within the available symbols. The full details of the symbol system are due to be announced later today by TRUSTe.
TRUSTe spokesman David Steer told news agency Reuters that these privacy symbols may prove especially useful to users who access the internet through mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA’s), or other mobile devices with limited display space.
See: www.truste.org