Privacy and consumer advocates called in a statement Monday for...
Privacy and consumer advocates called in a statement Monday for a simple and effective Do Not Track (DNT) option (http://bit.ly/YTZRgj). The nine groups behind the statement -- including the ACLU, Consumer Action, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy…
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Information Center -- said they “support the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) ongoing efforts to develop standards for how DNT should work” and “call on the [W3C] participants to agree to a standard based on respect for individuals’ fundamental privacy rights.” The groups applauded Microsoft and Mozilla for having “taken steps to meet the public demand for DNT.” But without legal or industry pressure, “it’s up to those doing the tracking to decide whether or how they will honor consumer preferences,” the groups said. The stance of some trackers to disregard DNT when it is enabled by default -- such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 -- “threatens the promise of DNT as a way to balance our right to privacy with commercial interests."