Re: Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology Paper outlining harms of tracking from Rigo Wenning on 2012-10-12 (public-tracking@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:21:20 +0200
To: public-tracking@w3.org
Cc: Shane Wiley <wileys@yahoo-inc.com>, "rob@blaeu.com" <rob@blaeu.com>
Message-ID: <2330926.fmFfoKIpiC@hegel.sophia.w3.org>

On Thursday 11 October 2012 16:35:20 Shane Wiley wrote:
> So far I believe we're on track to meet your tests with the most
> recent draft.

I like that conclusion. Lets get back to the concrete questions. Do 
we really need the unique identifiers in a DNT;1 context? Shane, 
could you imagine an easy hack to mitigate Rob's fears about those 
unique identifiers? Can we manage those on the user side to avoid 
giving a vector for profiling?

Rigo

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