- From: Lauren Gelman <gelman@blurryedge.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:24:36 -0800
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, John Simpson <john@consumerwatchdog.org>, "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Can you limit the sites who would be required to keep it for audit purposes to only first parties or their service providers? On Feb 2, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:44 AM, David Singer wrote: >> On Feb 1, 2012, at 21:37 , John Simpson wrote: >> >>> How does this approach work in light of the way referrers work? >> >> you would generally be allowed to use the referrer information only in real-time, and not record it. > > That is not always an option -- referral data received by some sites > is the essential trail of a contractual obligation and must be kept > for billing, auditing, and fraud prevention purposes. Likewise, > referral data in aggregate form is essential to both site analytics > and the most rudimentary forms of advertising placement. We can limit > its retention to those purposes when DNT is enabled and suggest ways > to segregate the data from other operational uses, but we should > accept that it will have to be retained by some sites regardless of > how we define the terms. > > ....Roy > > Lauren Gelman BlurryEdge Strategies 415-627-8512 gelman@blurryedge.com http://blurryedge.com
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