Re: privacy definitions -- was: WebID questions

On Oct 16, 2012, at 20:40 , Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> 
> But that is not yet transparency I am looking for. Because you could go to a site and click mistakenly on "accept cookies forever", and you could easily forget about it later. What is
> needed I was arguing is the ability to be able to see in your URL bar that you are using cookies
> and be able to switch it off easily. Then you would be made aware constantly of your identity at 
> a site. 

The problem is that many, if not most, sites use cookies, and a warning that is almost always on gets ignored.


David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 06:19:01 UTC