- From: Mike O'Neill <michael.oneill@baycloud.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:30:39 -0000
- To: "'Karl Dubost'" <karld@opera.com>, "David Singer" <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: <public-privacy@w3.org>
Karl, David The status quo is that there is no privacy. The web history of adults & children is tracked to a massive extent without even their (or their parents) knowledge. When or if we have privacy by default - or privacy enforcing (and non fingerprint-able if that is possible) UAs - this may be moot, but in the meantime we need to make trade-offs if we are to achieve anything. Even DNT:1 leaks some information about a user. I expect most concerned parents would agree with sensible trade-offs. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Karl Dubost [mailto:karld@opera.com] Sent: 07 November 2012 13:23 To: David Singer Cc: public-privacy@w3.org list; Fred Andrews Subject: Re: Children's online privacy. To go along with David, because I think it is important. Le 7 nov. 2012 à 06:35, David Singer a écrit : > if a website has the means (and maybe responsibility) to work out whether a visitor is a child or not, that in itself is yielding some information about visitors (and hence part of their privacy) A knife doesn't know the user is a child. So I do not think a user agent should identify the user is a child. Because waiving a flag about who the person is makes the person the target, quite the opposite of the initial intent. It's usually better to have requirements on service providers to check who are their users. Yes it is complex. But this goes for bookshops, alcohol shops, etc. Identification, Profiling should not replace education too. But that is a larger debate. -- Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ Developer Relations, Opera Software
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