UK commissioner has privacy suggestions, and supercookies in use from David Singer on 2011-08-18 (public-privacy@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:07:55 +0200
To: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Message-id: <3D64EB96-9FD4-4C61-BFBE-8EAB24B1B347@apple.com>

the suggestions story: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14557364>

and supercookies: <http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18704381?source=rss>

contains the apparently surprising statement;  "Many of the companies say they didn't know they were using the new techniques and stopped after the researchers contacted them."
They didn't know what techniques they were using?

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Thursday, 18 August 2011 08:08:43 UTC