House lawmakers said they were upset with Yahoo’s decision to...
House lawmakers said they were upset with Yahoo’s decision to ignore do not track signals from Internet Explorer 10, which they said leaves consumers’ personal information at risk. The co-chairs of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and…
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Joe Barton, R-Texas, urged Yahoo in a joint news release Friday to adhere to consumers’ preferences not to be tracked. “If consumers want to be tracked online, they should have to opt-in, not the other way around,” they said. “Yahoo seems to be operating on the ‘do not honor code’ by ignoring this valuable tool that protects consumer privacy.” Microsoft recently began including do not track by default in Internet Explorer 10 as a part of the “Express Settings” options in Windows 8. Yahoo did not comment.