For me personally, I am very familiar with YouTube and know that they are owned and strongly integrated into Google, and so would not be surprised that I was tracked across those sites. However, I am not a Flickr user, and was unaware of their affiliation with Yahoo (although I think Shane makes a pretty clear argument if you have to log in with your Yahoo credentials), and so if I followed someone else's link to their flickr page, I may be surprised to have that connected to Yahoo chat. My point is, that not only are user expectations going to be vastly different, but that a single user's expectations will differ based on their experience with the sites in question. Unfortunately, we need to come up with a standard for all sites and all users, so to me, "user expectations" do not always make a compelling argument. I think we need to state what we are trying to solve and then work towards solving that, because there is no solution that will meet a majority of user's expectations. I think that education has to fill that gap. From: John Simpson [mailto:john@consumerwatchdog.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:01 PM To: Karl Dubost Cc: Shane Wiley; JC Cannon; <public-tracking@w3.org> (public-tracking@w3.org) Subject: Re: Issue-17, Issue-51 First party obligations This user would not expect that. On Nov 29, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: Will users expect, accept to have their data aggregated * from YouTube with those of Gmail or Google Maps? * from Flickr with those of Yahoo! Chat? These are questions for the users. ---------- John M. Simpson Consumer Advocate Consumer Watchdog 1750 Ocean Park Blvd. ,Suite 200 Santa Monica, CA,90405 Tel: 310-392-7041 Cell: 310-292-1902 www.ConsumerWatchdog.org<http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org> john@consumerwatchdog.org<mailto:john@consumerwatchdog.org>
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