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Do Not Track
Only collect the data that it is absolutely essential to collect. Invest lots of time and energy in figuring out what that data is.
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Pinterest Opts in to Do Not Track
Fans of online pinning service Pinterest are about to get an extra dose of personalized recommendations, the company announced, and that means Web tracking. The feature can be turned off, however, and Pinterest will respect the Do Not Track protocol going forward.
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Internet Explorer 10 Finally Available For Windows 7 Users
Having led the way as a smart new browser for Windows 8 users, Microsoft's faster, neater, more secure IE10 is finally available for the hundreds of millions of Windows 7 users. Windows XP folk, however, are still out of luck.
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Google Chrome Update Boosts User Privacy with Do Not Track Feature
Users of the Google Chrome browser now have more privacy options available to them. Access to permissions settings has been eased and Chrome now offers a “do not track” feature.
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Google Chrome Gains Do Not Track, Advertisers Are Still Watching You
The “Do Not Track” (DNT) privacy standard has made a little more progress. Google, still reeling from this summer’s US$ 22.5 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission stemming from their mishandling privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser, included support for DNT in the latest developer release of its Chrome
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Ensighten Raises US15.5m To Develop Enterprise Tag Management Reach, Expand Market
If any one had any doubt that there is money in tag management, then the announcement today that enterprise tag management vendor Ensighten has managed to raise US$ 15.5 million in Series A financing should knock those doubts right on the head.
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Using Web Tracking to Track Down Hackers #blackhat
There’s not really much you can do about web tracking, so you might as well figure out how you can take advantage of it. This was the theme of Web Tracking for You, a session at the tenth Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas presented by Gregory
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Google Expected to Pony Up $22.5 Million Fine for Safari User Tracking Violations
Google is expected to pay a governmental fine of US$ 22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed privacy settings on Apple users’ Safari browsers, according to various news reports. The fine by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which would be the largest in that agency’s history, would amount
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What is Do Not Track? Web Standards and Privacy Under Scrutiny
Twenty-first century technology may be considered our servant, but the question of who exactly it serves is one that is coming up more and more as we advance into the Internet age. As far reaching in so many people’s lives as the Web tends to be, fundamental questions about privacy have not
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Privacy vs. Permission-based Marketing
With the coming cookie law in Europe, the Do Not Track header option added to future browsers, default rejection of third party cookies in more and more browsers and several high profile security and privacy breaches of big organizations, fear around the privacy theme
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Ensighten Releases Free 'Do Not Track' Tool for Publishers
Cookies. Those software namesakes of the sugar-charged morsels are central to the growing Do Not Track (DNT) movement, and now Ensighten has released a free Web tool to help publishers follow and disable the tags that use cookies. The tool, called Ensighten PrivacyDNT, is touted as a simple
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Twitter Allows 'Do Not Track' Privacy Feature
Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser's Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don't want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously.
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W3C Releases Do-Not-Track Standards Drafts
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced drafts of two standards that address Internet privacy concerns. The standards, which focus on users’ ability to specify online tracking preferences, are likely to draw lots of attention, given recent controversies at Google and Twitter due to disclosure of personal information.
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W3C Announces Work on 'Do Not Track' Standard
This year, almost every browser implemented a "do not track" feature, prompted by privacy-conscious consumers and the Do Not Track list proposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Now the concept is gaining even more support.
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