Re: Questionable Research

Jeff ­ all of the companies you cite below also provide funding for the CDT.
Are you questioning the credibility of the CDT's work as well?

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>> Shane.  Mr. Castro works for an industry funded and connected group, which
>> has worked to weaken privacy rules--including for children. It's board
>> includes Cisco, Intel, Qualcom, Oracle,  H-P, Microsoft and others.
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>> It's important to discuss scholarly research that is relevant, but also
>> identify the conflicts of interest which shape their role.
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>> Best,
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>> Jeff
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>> Jeffrey Chester
>> Center for Digital Democracy
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>> On Nov 9, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Shane Wiley wrote:
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>> An interesting article discussing the lack of objectivity in the research
>> paper John just circulated:
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>> New Survey Shows Some Privacy Scholars Lack Objectivity
>> BY DANIEL CASTRO <http://www.innovationfiles.org/author/danielcastro/>  ·
>> OCTOBER 14, 2012
>> URL:  
>> HTTP://WWW.INNOVATIONFILES.ORG/NEW-SURVEY-SHOWS-SOME-PRIVACY-SCHOLARS-LACK-OB
>> JECTIVITY/
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>> ³A survey funded by Nokia
>> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2152135>  and conducted
>> at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology shows what has become
>> increasingly apparent to those who follow this line of research: some of the
>> most prominent academic researchers have ceased to retain even a veneer of
>> objectivity in their research on privacy. The authors, Chris Hoofnagle,
>> Jennifer Urban and Su Li, state that their survey shows that ³Americans have
>> a low level of knowledge about [Do Not Track], but prefer that it mean that
>> websites do not collect tracking data.²
>> I won¹t mince words here: this is shoddy research.²
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>> NOTE:  Please follow the link above to read the rest of the article.
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>> From: John Simpson [mailto:john@consumerwatchdog.org]
>> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 1:13 PM
>> To: David Wainberg
>> Cc: Walter van Holst; public-tracking@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: ISSUE-187 - some thoughts on using javascript
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>> I've attached as a PDF file an interesting research paper from the Berkeley
>> Center for Law and Technology about what people expect from DNT.
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>> John M. Simpson
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>> On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:59 AM, David Wainberg wrote:
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>> On 11/8/12 5:52 PM, Walter van Holst wrote:
>>> On 11/8/12 9:17 PM, Vinay Goel wrote:
>>>> Hi Walter,
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>>>> I agree with you that the logical solution would be to store them together
>>>> in the UA preferences.  From what I understand, though, the major UAs
>>>> would likely not implement this, though.
>>> I probably should have spotted that in the list archives before, but
>>> have missed it. I cannot speek for the UAs, nonetheless all research on
>>> user opinions on tracking suggests that they are much more inclined to
>>> go for a all-out DNT:1 than for DNT:0, which makes me assume that any
>>> exception mechanism is unlikely to be used often. Sadly not all research
>>> in this field is publicly available, so we have to make do with what is.
>> What credible research can you cite that is publicly available? Unfortunately
>> we don't have much useful information on what users really want, or would
>> want if they properly understood the technology and their choices. And it's
>> certainly not very helpful to cite research that isn't available.
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>> -David
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