- From: Malcolm Crompton <mcrompton@iispartners.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:19:04 +1000
- To: "'David Singer'" <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: <public-privacy@w3.org>
David - all good points, although the fact remains that part of the problem for the consumer is that the aggregate impact of all the different tools and their instability means that it is near impossible for the consumer to manage so many will have given up. The implications are that industry arguments to the effect that most users don’t care is almost certainly overstating the case, to an unknown extent. Quite by coincidence while looking online for any blog commentary about the problem with the Google persistent opt out cookie in FF4, I came across the following article at http://bit.ly/gfZhY0. Admittedly it is a company justifying its business play, but before getting to that point, its description of the problem it is seeking to address is spot on & totally in line with the points I was making earlier. Malcolm Crompton Managing Director Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd ABN 78 107 611 898 T: +61 407 014 450 MCrompton@iispartners.com www.iispartners.com -----Original Message----- From: public-privacy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-privacy-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Singer Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2011 4:06 AM To: Malcolm Crompton Cc: public-privacy@w3.org Subject: Re: WSJ - browser adoption of do not track On Apr 15, 2011, at 23:52 , Malcolm Crompton wrote: > The problem with all this industry self regulation is that it remains > fractured and unstable. > Yes, it does. The upsides of industry self-regulation over government or other external regulation are that the industry can probably adapt more rapidly to new concerns, challenges, and questions, and one hopes that the industry is well informed about what is going on, what is possible, and so on. At the moment, I fear we are facing a situation in which * user expectations, understanding, and their associated societal norms, are developing and in varied stages in various places and people -- a fluid situation; users sometimes don't know what they want or don't want until some specific incident helps clarify, for example; * industry practices, the technology basis, and the business models, are very much in an exploratory and developing phase right now; both new tools (e.g. HTML5) and new techniques are coming along all the time; we have a fluid situation here; Given a situation in which both ends of the question are developing and learning as they go, hoping for perfect clarity and stability any time soon may be optimistic. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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