Re: Proposed California Law affecting DNT

And how does one contact an actual user given an ip? That ip could be a nat
with 50 computers behind it, or 5000. And its not like you can just call up
an ip and say "please tell the user I have a great offer for them..." so
I'm really not sure in what context this is used to contact a user, unlike
an email address or phone number...
On Mar 28, 2013 7:10 PM, "John Simpson" <john@consumerwatchdog.org> wrote:

> AG's folks tell me their interpretation is broader than traditional PII.
> Item 6 is:
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> "(6) Any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting
> of a specific individual."
> They say they they understand that provision to include an IP address and
> a device ID.
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> On Mar 28, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ifette@google.com>
> wrote:
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> Two thoughts,
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> 1, it seems the language of the bill is a bit confused around who is doing
> what, specifically it talks about the first party honoring the request to
> not "track", with an added obligation to explicitly call out the special
> circumstance where the website somehow enforces restrictions on third
> parties (by technical or contractual means?!)
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> 2, hey, it defines tracking! And the tracking seems to be defined as the
> collection of PII such as name, email, or social security number
> (specifically defined on page 3 line 19 forward).
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:53 PM, John Simpson <john@consumerwatchdog.org>wrote:
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>> Colleagues,
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>> The California Attorney General is sponsoring a bill that could be of
>> interest to our working group. It is AB 370 introduced by Assemblyman Al
>> Muratsuchi.  I've attached it as a PDF file.  I'm not sure that the current
>> language exactly accomplishes what the AG's office tells me is their
>> intent, but here is what I was told they want to do:
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>> The bill would amend existing California law requiring privacy policies
>> to require that a commercial website would have to include in its privacy
>> policy whether or not it honors a Do-Not-Track message.  The intent, I was
>> told, is to increase transparency and shift some of the responsibility for
>> Do Not Track on to consumer-facing 1st party sites.
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>> The idea is that a 1st party website could not claim it honored Do Not
>> Track if it allowed or knew it had 3rd parties on its site that engaged in
>> tracking.
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>> The bill offers this definition of tracking:
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>> "The term "online tracking" means the practice of collecting personally
>> identifiable information about and individual consumer's online activities
>> over time and across different Web sites and online services."
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>> I thought you would be interested.
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>> Best regards,
>> John
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>>   John M. Simpson
>> Privacy Project Director
>> Consumer Watchdog
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