Re: PING - areas where contributions are needed

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Lukasz Olejnik (W3C)
<lukasz.w3c@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is a pretty big divide between US and EU models for consent and
>> legal theories... Frederik Z-B and Aleecia MacDonald just presented a
>> net paper at TPRC entitled "Do Not Track for Europe" that nicely
>> outlines the pretty stark differences that the DNT standard would need
>> to support to be usable in the EU:
>> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2588086
>
>
> Interesting. So instead of forking DNT one might be interested in making
> sure all is set. The understanding and reasoning is that in order for the
> DNT standard/tracking compliance be enforced and honored in practice, at
> some point it will be necessary to engage regulatory bodies?

Absolutely... I don't think anyone ever envisioned DNT as a technical
enforcement mechanism (there was a similar line of work chartered for
the WG that would have created Tracking Protection Lists, but I don't
think that got very far despite MSFT IE implementing their idea about
it in some flavor of IE).

In the US, the State of California has a law on the books that
requires internet companies that do business with california residents
to state in their privacy policy what they do upon receipt of a DNT
signal. If a company were to follow that law and put a statement in
their privacy policy and if they were subsequently found to be doing
something substantially different from what they state in their
privacy policy, that could be a deceptive business practice that our
Federal Trade Commission could investigate and enforce against.

I'll stop here because I could have misunderstood your question and I
may be in the weeds. best, Joe

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