[x-pubpol] Lauren Weinstein on Do-Not-Track

[Christine Runnegar]

Hi all.

Please let me take this opportunity to highlight a workshop the Internet Society is co-organising with the Council of Europe at the IGF in Baku:

Who is following me: tracking the trackers (9:00 - 10:30 on 8 November 2012)

http://wsms1.intgovforum.org/content/no181-who-following-me-tracking-trackers

(See also: http://www.internetsociety.org/who-following-me-tracking-trackers-igf2012)

Background paper:  http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Tracking%20-%20Background%20paper%2020120711_0.pdf

We are presently preparing issues and questions for the workshop. So, if you have any suggestions, please feel free to send them to me.

Thanks,
Christine


On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:

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> (extract)
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>              http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000994.html
> 
> Meanwhile, regulators in Europe jumped the shark completely, imposing
> a useless requirement that sites display a "will you accept our
> cookies?" banner that won't go away unless you accept the cookie that
> holds the status of your choice regarding whether you will or won't
> accept cookies!  Huh?  Say what?
>  
> 
> Yep, you have to accept a cookie to reject the cookies, and if you
> don't accept any cookies, you'll usually keep seeing that banner query
> every time you visit the sites, and in some cases can't even get
> deeper into the sites at all.
>  
> 
> Welcome to Bozo Web!  Let's see how many Web regulators pop out of
> that teeny, tiny car in the center ring!
>  
> 
> But don't laugh too hard.  While politicians on one hand tout their
> crackdowns on the usually anonymous advertising systems that help keep
> so many Web services free, many of the same politicos are pushing for
> massive government data retention programs, vast warrantless
> wiretapping projects, deep surveillance of financial and commercial
> transactions, encompassing CCTV camera nets, vehicle license plate
> readers, automobile driver monitoring, and on ... and on ... and on.
> Golly, it's almost as if someone were trying to divert our attention
> from genuine, serious privacy concerns, by waving the advertising
> cookies Do Not Track red cape in front of our faces -- like a toreador
> preparing a bull for the coup de grace.
>  
> 
> The current Do Not Track effort is yet another example of hype
> masquerading as reality. 
> 
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