- From: Alan Chapell <achapell@chapellassociates.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:01:05 -0400
- To: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- CC: Nicholas Doty <npdoty@w3.org>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, <public-tracking@w3.org>, Sid Stamm <sid@mozilla.com>, Justin Brookman <jbrookman@cdt.org>
FYI - http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/25/mozilla-wants-to-help-you-see-a-more-perso nalized-web-without-giving-up-your-privacy/ It might be helpful to have Sid or Alex help the group understand how this program complements DNT when the group meets again in September. Alan On 7/17/13 1:09 PM, "Rigo Wenning" <rigo@w3.org> wrote: >On Wednesday 17 July 2013 09:04:03 Alan Chapell wrote: >> The concern certainly includes, but is not limited to tool-bars and >> search-bars. I believe its possible that browsers will look to >> directly (and without the benefit of defined plugins or tool bars) >> leverage information for ad targeting, content customization and >> market research. In fact, if one looks at some of the server side >> browsers, I don't believe that this is at all theoretical. > >Alan, you mainly don't want the browser to phone home without the user's >consent. This is rather obvious and I have seen consensus around it >(although only the chairs can assess consensus), but the issue is the >wording as far as my understanding goes. David is trying to find >wording, but it isn't simple to avoid the interference with normal >networking operations. > >Let's wait for the next round of wording from David.. I'm thinking about >words too. > > --Rigo >
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