- From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:46:56 -0400
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
It's not all that implausible that the sites didn't know what was going on, for some definition of "the sites". At least a couple of scenarios come to mind: 1. Ad company's instructions say "paste this code into your site", and a developer does it without investigating thoroughly 2. Management asks developers to implement features that require tracking (e.g., persistent sign-on), and developers add the required tracking On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:07 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > 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. > > >
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