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[ NNSquad ] With Do-Not-Track for IE, Microsoft continues to give the finger to W3C
With Do-Not-Track for IE, Microsoft continues to give the finger to W3C http://j.mp/NbLz6E "With its decision, Microsoft is consciously staking out a pro-privacy position for IE 10 and throwing down a gauntlet to the Tracking Protection Working Group, which thought it had hammered out an uneasy consensus between privacy groups and advertisers." - - - After agreeing to participate in the associated standards track, Microsoft's actions -- which also are directly contrary to Mozilla's adherence with the proposed standards -- amount to simple pandering. Personally, I would have no problem at all with sites choosing to ignore Internet Explorer Do-Not-Track preferences that are not clearly the result of an affirmative choice by users. Microsoft is not interested in the privacy aspects of this situation. They're simply trying to breathe some additional life into a rapidly dying browser. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad