RE: Issue-207

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In Europe at least there could be some pressure for observance, especially if DPAs say that DNT: 0 is a valid way to signal consent as per R66 in the privacy directive or that DNT:1 overrides any implied consent. About 20% of European users already set it in their browsers and the legal environment in the EU means that cannot be ignored.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Singer [mailto:singer@apple.com]
> Sent: 21 April 2014 19:23
> To: Roy T. Fielding
> Cc: rob@blaeu.com; Mike O'Neill; public-tracking@w3.org (public-
> tracking@w3.org)
> Subject: Re: Issue-207
> 
> 
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 11:11 , Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 21, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Rob van Eijk wrote:
> >
> >> Burying the explenation in a large text would not suffice in my view.
> >
> > Then don't bury it.
> >
> >> You can not expect the user to keep track of which company accepts his user
> agent of choice, and which companies do not. Especially since there can be
> more than just one reason why a syntactically valid user expression of choice
> was disregarded.
> >
> > I don't expect them to.  I don't expect a user to ever look at this
> > field, or anything else in the protocol for that matter.  I expect
> > regulators to look at them, and the occasional automated spider or
> > extension driven by someone with advocacy in mind.
> 
> I think if we ever get to the point where the vast majority of servers implement
> DNT, and the exceptions etc. are rare enough to be worth flagging, we might
> start exposing them automatically to users, but right now, I tend to agree.  It’ll
> be users who ask for ‘privacy debugging mode’, advocates, regulators, and so
> on, who look.
> 
> 
> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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