RE: Issue-39: Tracking of Geographic Data

Aleecia,

The geo-location discussion was on the first day and fairly early in the event.  I believe the conversation has progressed significantly and as we narrow in on the "cross-site" element of "tracking" I'm struggling to see how geo-location fits into the "cross-site" model.  If the group feels that IP Address derived geo-location should not be used across sessions if the user has DNT activated, that makes sense to me but I'm not sure if geo granularity is important in this context (any geo vs. Zip4).

- Shane

From: Aleecia M. McDonald [mailto:aleecia@aleecia.com]
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:05 AM
To: Tracking Protection Working Group WG
Subject: Re: Issue-39: Tracking of Geographic Data

Reminder: we had a fairly lengthy discussion about geoIP in the context of how identifying zip plus 4 is (about 12 households) and had a general sense that it is hard to claim there is no tracking if you can identify location that closely. I can pull the call minutes and/or prior email threads where Shane argues against zip plus 4 being ok if that is helpful context.

            Aleecia

On Dec 15, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Amy Colando (LCA) wrote:


Is it perhaps the concept of across sites, over time? I think this is what Jeff is getting at too, when he talks about multiple data sources.

If ad network just uses the IP address that accompanies HTTP request to provide relevant content or ads, OK. If ad network remembers it in a profile it retain about you based on cross site activity, that is not OK, when DNT signal is sent (absent some other exception).

Yes?

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From: Karl Dubost
Sent: 12/15/2011 7:28 PM
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann
Cc: public-tracking@w3.org<mailto:public-tracking@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Issue-39:  Tracking of Geographic Data

Le 15 déc. 2011 à 21:45, Bjoern Hoehrmann a écrit :
>  I do not see the connection there to dnt and ad selection. You seemed to be saying that, if you have dnt enabled, you should not get ads based on where some ad-network thinks your IP-address belongs to geographically

nope. not what I meant. I'm trying to find a better way
to express the cross-data aggregation around IP geolocation.

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