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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: quiller on February 23, 2012, 10:28:15 AM

Title: 'Do Not Track' button from Google, Microsoft
Post by: quiller on February 23, 2012, 10:28:15 AM
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 (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.
Title: Re: 'Do Not Track' button from Google, Microsoft
Post by: Ford289HiPo on February 23, 2012, 04:17:48 PM
Quote from: quiller on February 23, 2012, 10:28:15 AM
This will do nothing the government cannot bypass.
Government hates competition.
Title: Re: 'Do Not Track' button from Google, Microsoft
Post by: tac on March 02, 2012, 06:04:20 PM
That button must be a red flag for DHS to start tracking your browsing.
Title: Re: 'Do Not Track' button from Google, Microsoft
Post by: Solar on March 02, 2012, 06:52:49 PM
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.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Hadn't thought about that...