My intent here is simply to understand the new position adopted by the DAA and other stakeholders in this group. (There is some language in the statement that I and others don't quite follow.) I do not want to open a forum for grievances about that position.
Jonathan
On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Jeffrey Chester wrote:
> Point 1 suggests users will be first talked out of exercising their choice, and given misleading information about the nature of profile-based tracking.
>
> Jeff Chester
> Center for Digital Democracy
> Washington DC
> www.democraticmedia.org
> Jeff@democraticmedia.org
>
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Jonathan Mayer <jmayer@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> http://www.aboutads.info/resource/download/DAA_Committment.pdf
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>> If I read this correctly, the DAA's new position on DNT is:
>>
>> 1) Substantively, the same as the current DAA program, plus
>> 2) no browser or network intermediary can enable DNT by default (ISSUE-4, ISSUE-95), and
>> 3) language in the browser UI has to be clear that the feature doesn't prohibit all data collection (ISSUE-41).
>>
>> Is that right?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>