The digital Privacy debate continues and the W3C are defining Do Not Track (DNT) standards right now. The goal is good, but I fear they are making things more complicated than they need to be. In an ideal world, users would have a choice over everything that gets shared and with whom it is shared. […]
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Privacy: It can be Global, Local & now Regional
In yesterdays post Privacy: Do Not Track is Global – But can it ever be Local? I talked about Mozilla proposed new “Three state setting for “Do Not Track” The current standard is either Allow Tracking or Do Not Track (binary). However this doesn’t satisfy all the use cases on the Web, nor fit well with […]
Privacy: Do Not Track is Global – But can it ever be Local?
Yes… (read on) Today Mozilla proposed a new “Three state setting for “Do Not Track” The current standard is either Allow Tracking or Do Nott Track (binary). However this doesn’t satisfy all the use cases on the Web nor fit well with laws in Europe. (The three-state setting for Do Not Track will […]
Privacy: Do Not Track – Expressing a tracking privacy preference is harder than you think
I’ve been reading through the actual Do Not Track spec (link). Section 4 is quite interesting, specifically as it relates to “the user hasn’t set a preference”. Here’s the current wording: When enabled, a tracking preference is expressed as either: 1… This user prefers not to be tracked on the target site. 0… This user […]
FaceBook going to New York through China to “Help Improve the Mobile Web” – but the Problem has already been solved
I’m going to switch from Privacy to the Mobile Web for this post. Helping Improve the Mobile Web – Facebook Developers: “When you build for the mobile web today, it’s hard to know which browsers and devices will support your app. Which is why we’re proud to be joining over 30 device manufacturers, carriers, […]