Re: June Draft of the DNT compliance spec

Ok ­ Thanks Nick.


Alan

From:  Nicholas Doty <npdoty@w3.org>
Date:  Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:30 PM
To:  Alan Chapell <achapell@chapellassociates.com>
Cc:  Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net>, "public-tracking@w3.org"
<public-tracking@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: June Draft of the DNT compliance spec

> Hi Alan,
> 
> On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:30 AM, Alan Chapell <achapell@chapellassociates.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Peter. I'm still generally uncomfortable that DNT doesn't place
>> requirements on First Parties.
>> 
>> One item of particular concern that seems to have fallen off the radar is the
>> scenario where a party collects data in a first party context and attempts to
>> use it in a third party context when DNT is enabled. I thought there was
>> agreement on this issue. However, I keep raising it, and it doesn't seem to
>> make it into the drafts. Perhaps its implied in the language "Š customize the
>> content, services, and advertising in the context of the first party
>> experience." However, it is not clear enough, IMHO.
>> 
>> To address, I offer the following language to Section 4 (First Party
>> Compliance). The new language is below.
>> 
>> First Parties must not use data collected while a First Party when acting as
>> a Third-Party when DNT = 1.
>> 
>> Nick ­ if I need to open up another issue on this, please let me know.
>> Thanks!
> 
> We have ISSUE-170: "Definition of and what/whether limitations around data
> append and first parties" open as the issue tracking this question. I believe
> the group does not have agreement on this issue, which is why it is one of the
> several OPEN issues post our recent cleanup.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick

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