Consumer Reports Says Do Not Track, But Tracks Anyway Here’s the punch line… So, while the latest versions of IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari do allow users to enable DNT, standards for whether or how online trackers should acknowledge those browser signals have yet to be agreed upon by government, advertisers, privacy advocates […]
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Google joins the Do Not Track Party
Just downloaded the latest version of Chrome and it’s official – Do Not Track is now a Privacy setting. Although you might want to read the disclaimer that shows up when you check the box.
A Fool in search of Privacy
As I watch with great interest in what can only be called the ‘Shenanigans’, taking place at the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, my mind is drawn to Wikipedia’s description of the Fool (link) In various tarot card games he has a unique role – (and I quote)… ‘In these games, the Fool is sometimes […]
Privacy and the Human in the Loop
When considering any system sometimes we forget that there’s a ‘Human in the Loop’. I’ve just finished reading a great white paper by Lori Cranor (A Framework for Reasoning About the Human in the Loop), and whilst this paper talks about security, it’s kissing cousin is Privacy. So a lot of the ideas presented here […]
Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out
In light of all the ‘discussions’ over at the Tracking Protection Working Group regarding the advertising industry claims that their polices ‘really do work’ I thought it might be a good idea to search for some more empirical data by a respected university. And as luck would have it I found this: Why Johnny Can’t […]