RE: Today's call: summary on user agent compliance

Tamir,

The user has many options at that point:
- Switch to a compliant UA and set DNT
- Use the existing opt-out approach
- Block cookies (in whole or selectively)
- Stop viewing the free content provided on that site

What signifies consent in your view today in the absence of a DNT standard?

- Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Rigo Wenning [mailto:rigo@w3.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:57 AM
To: Tamir Israel
Cc: Shane Wiley; Jeffrey Chester; Ninja Marnau; ifette@google.com; Bjoern Hoehrmann; David Singer; public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)
Subject: Re: Today's call: summary on user agent compliance

On Friday 08 June 2012 14:49:23 Tamir Israel wrote:
> I truly apologize for belaboring this issue, but once the DNT-1
> signal  is ignored, there is no longer an available opt-out
> mechanism for the user to employ in order to express their
> preference. So regulators will then have to decide whether the
> mere presence of notice that tracking is occurring offers a
> sufficiently meaningful consent mechanism.

You found the hole! I have to think about it.

Rigo

Received on Friday, 8 June 2012 19:01:54 UTC