- From: Justin Brookman <justin@cdt.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:16:39 -0400
- To: public-tracking@w3.org
I agree with most of Bjoern's comments (and thanks for the quick feedback). Two quick notes: > Regarding the definition of "Consent", I rather doubt it would be a good > idea for this Working Group to attempt to define the term, reasons in- > clude that laws already provide definitions of that, and any consensus- > based definition is likely to be inconsistent with existing legal ones. Fair enough, but the legal definition of consent is actually incredibly vague in many jurisdictions, and we may wish to specify a higher standard for users in those places where the requirements are weak or unclear. For instance, it would be a perverse result if a company's privacy policy could say both "we comply with 'Do Not Track'" and "oh, by the way, we reserve the right to track you." One way to avoid the legal inconsistency problem would be to define "Affirmative Informed Consent" as AT LEAST in response to a clear and prominent request separate from other permissions/disclosures. > Various sections refer to "behavioral tracking". That seems borderline > tautological to me. "Behavioral tracking" is specifically defined in 3.4.
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