Do Not Beg: Moving Beyond DNT through Privacy by Design
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The Do Not Track header (henceforth DNT:1) seeks to provide privacy protections against third party tracking through user request and regulation. It is our position that while DNT:1 is potentially useful as a purely informational tool for browser vendors and service providers, enforcement of the header suffers from a number of issues including covert circumvention, enforcement jurisdiction, manipulation, regulatory capture, and abuse. Moreover, every privacy property that DNT:1 aims to provide through regulatory enforcement can be better provided through technical changes to browser and network behavior during private browsing modes. We therefore suggest that the W3C standards body focus on standardizing these technical measures, rather than attempting to broker negotiations over regulatory policy and law.
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