QuoteWeb companies including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to voluntarily create a "Do Not Track" button on Thursday, a move that could help the companies ward off new government regulations.

The groups, along with hundreds of other advertising companies in the Digital Advertising Alliance, promised to work with the major Web browsers to create a button that will allow users to opt out of tracking by Internet advertisers with a single click.

Stu Ingis, the Digital Advertising Alliance's general counsel, said the feature will likely be available within nine months.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/212257-google-microsoft-yahoo-aim-to-defuse-privacy-issue-with-commitments

Nine months? When pigs fly. Your on-line privacy is a MYTH. This will do nothing the government cannot bypass.

Quote from: quiller on February 23, 2012, 10:28:15 AM
This will do nothing the government cannot bypass.

Government hates competition.

That button must be a red flag for DHS to start tracking your browsing.

Quote from: tac on March 02, 2012, 06:04:20 PM
That button must be a red flag for DHS to start tracking your browsing.

Hadn't thought about that...