- From: Dobbs, Brooks <Brooks.Dobbs@kbmg.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:35:11 +0000
- To: Tamir Israel <tisrael@cippic.ca>
- CC: Alan Chapell <achapell@chapellassociates.com>, "Grimmelmann, James" <James.Grimmelmann@nyls.edu>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Tamir, You are obviously free to personally conclude whatever outcome you feel is likely from DNT: 1, but as James (not I) points out, it is highly contested if widespread DNT: 1 is or is not privacy enhancing. Just agreeing on the objective is hard enough. Objectively DNT: 1 has certain meanings. Let's look for agreements there before we go to the subjective, attenuated, value judgement as to if DNT:1 is or is not likely to be privacy enhancing. I'll stop beating the dead horse with that. -Brooks -- Brooks Dobbs, CIPP | Chief Privacy Officer | KBM Group | Part of the Wunderman Network (Tel) 678 580 2683 | (Mob) 678 492 1662 | kbmg.com brooks.dobbs@kbmg.com This email including attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy, distribute or act on it. Instead, notify the sender immediately and delete the message. On 8/22/12 5:08 PM, "Tamir Israel" <tisrael@cippic.ca> wrote: >I do not agree with this. DNT-1 is a general indication that a user does >not wish to be tracked or, alternatively, that they want privacy in >their browsing. I'm sorry, but I do not see another way to interpret this. > >On 8/22/2012 4:55 PM, Dobbs, Brooks wrote: >> We are in agreement that funding will continue, so in the end DNT: 1 >>will be a choice about how you want to pay, not if your going to. I am >>not hearing any discussion about a more privacy friendly form of funding >>than >> advertising, so it seems a stretch to assume that a new, heretofore >> unknown, way of funding replaces it which is necessarily more privacy >> protective. >> >> -Brooks > >We are NOT in agreement that this will be the result in every case. When >I set DNT-1, I am telling everyone that I do not wish to be tracked. >Some services may then ask me to opt back in, to choose an alternative >means of payment, or to agree to an alternative means of tracking. But I >can say no to any or all of these on a case by case basis -- already a >vast privacy improvement over the free for all that currently exists. So >I simply do not see how a DNT-1 can be anything *other* than an >indication of a preference for privacy. >
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