RE: 'not tracking', amendment to the change proposal

David,

I agree, and "tracking data" is more technology neutral than my text on
fingerprinting and identifier duration. We should still explicitly rule out
fingerprinting and encourage short duration identifiers for permitted uses
in some explanatory non-normative text.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Singer [mailto:singer@apple.com] 
Sent: 03 July 2013 01:08
To: public-tracking@w3.org List
Subject: 'not tracking', amendment to the change proposal

http://www.w3.org/wiki/Privacy/TPWG/Change_Proposal_No_Tracking

problem:

Though I doubt many sites will want to or be able to claim this state, I
don't see a problem in defining it (it is at worst harmless), but I don't
think the definition works.


proposal:

A party may claim that it is not tracking, if it does not retain tracking
data after the network transaction is complete.  Retaining tracking data
includes:

1) Retention by the server of data that falls into the definition of
tracking data.

2) Causing the user-agent to retain data, such as cookies,  that contains or
can be linked to tracking data.

Note that tracking data applies to data after a transaction is complete; the
site may use in-transaction data for the purposes of satisfying the
transaction.




David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 3 July 2013 07:13:39 UTC