- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:01:48 -0400
- To: pitkow@cc.gatech.edu (James Pitkow)
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In message <199507192235.SAA02218@hapeville.cc.gatech.edu>, James Pitkow writes : > >Dan wrote: >> >> Please demonstrate how this is done. No fair spreading Fear, >> Uncertainty, and Doubt. > >Ok. Here's a business card that you require for site access: Whoa. I was asking how Request-ID can be used to compromise privacy. No fair muddling it up with business cards. >Now, if you enable mechanisms that permit log files to contain ids across >sites AND you do not impose a policy to protect users, Who said that? Not me. I would certainly expect anybody collecting business cards to write up their policy for access to that data and make it available. I would probably even mandate that in the spec. >Interestingly, it seems that companies on the Web are asking for more >information about the effectiveness of their advertising then they can >get now. When I buy a magazine off a newsstand, no one knows how long >I looked at the pages, what my name is, etc. Not unless you return the reader-response cards, or participate in a survey, or... I never suggested that _all_ infomation providers would require a business card on _all_ data. Just that it may be appropriate at times. <rant> Come on folks, this is a big distributed system. The interesting thing about distributed systems is not just that you can use more than one box to get the job done. It's that you can accomodate a variety of policies within the system. Each site decides how much access to resources it provides to the community, and what it requires in return. </rant> > Instead, companies make >their decisions based upon reliable estimates of subscription rates and >the demographics that compose those readers. And they spend a lot of money doing that, and it costs YOU. Dan
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