tracking-ISSUE-114: Guidance or mitigation of fingerprinting risk for user-agent-managed site-specific tracking exceptions [Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)] from Tracking Protection Working Group Issue Tracker on 2012-01-06 (public-tracking@w3.org from January 2012)

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tracking-ISSUE-114: Guidance or mitigation of fingerprinting risk for user-agent-managed site-specific tracking exceptions [Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)]

http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/track/issues/114

Raised by: Nick Doty
On product: Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)

By storing a client-side configurable state and providing functionality to query it later, this functionality may enable user fingerprinting and user tracking. We should either mitigate this concern (can we provide functionality without making fingerprinting of the user easier?) or provide guidance to implementers on how to minimize this risk.

See "Fingerprinting concerns".

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