Track Locally

I don't know if this is the correct place to post this suggestion, but as a
very small website operator and consumer, I would like to request a third
option in the Do Not Track standard.

I have observed through options in Piwik and Firefox that the
implementation of DNT seems too absolute. In the browser I can only select
to never be tracked or to always be tracked, and in my analytics software I
can only select to never track or to ignore tracking requests.

As a consumer I actually like that owners of websites I frequent want to
track me and make the site work better for me. Similarly, as a website
operator I feel the site is my private property and those people who use my
site would benefit from my tracking them and making the site work better
based on this data.

However, under the standard there is no way for me as a consumer to
communicate to the websites I visit that I approve of their using my
tracking data to improve the site, and the reverse is true for me as a
website operator in that users cannot communicate to me that they approve
my tracking of their usage of my website.

If I understand the standard correctly, what I would like to see is a DNT-2
option to track locally. With this option selected the website operator
would not be authorized to share the data for any reason other than to
improve the site itself.

Thanks!

Paul

Received on Monday, 15 October 2012 07:56:31 UTC