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Commenter: John Simpson <john@consumerwatchdog.org> on behalf of Do-Not-Track Community Group

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[Free text description]Document as a wholeThis specification defines the technical mechanisms for expr... Notational Conventions Requirements The key words must, mu... Requirements The key words must, must not, required, should... Formal Syntax This specification uses Augmented Backus-Naur... Terminology This specification uses the term user agent to... Determining User Preference The goal of this protocol is to... Expressing a Tracking Preference When a user has enabled a... DNT request header field The DNT header field is hereby def... HTML DOM Interfaces The NavigatorDoNotTrack interface provi... Plug-In APIs User agents often include user-installable com... Communicating a Tracking Status The companion document, Tra... Goals The following goals have been identified as reasons f... Criteria The following criteria have been identified as con... Options There have been many suggestions, but not much cons... Machine-readable Tracking Policy This can be defined as eit... Tracking response header field sent on all responses? sent... Proposal 1 (Tom, Heather, Ian) This response header proposa... Status code for Tracking Required An HTTP error response st... User-agent-managed site-specific exceptions ISSUE-43: Sites... Overview In this proposal, exceptions to Do Not Track, incl... Motivating principles and use cases The following principle... JavaScript API to prompt for exceptions A JavaScript API al... Exception management user interface A user agent might prov... Behavior for future requests with site-specific exceptions... Web-wide exceptions Users may also wish to configure except... User interface guidelines Implementers should keep in mind... Fingerprinting concerns By storing a client-side configurab... Example permission flows No Site-Specific Exception User a... Use case: Site-specific exceptions should persist It would... Closed Issues ISSUE-2: What is the meaning of DNT (Do Not T... Postponed Issues ISSUE-44: Ability to measure/detect who is...
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open proposal pending resolved_yes resolved_no resolved_partial other assigned to Nobody Auerbach, Dan Bateman, Adrian Berkower, Elise Bian, Chao Bielova, Nataliia Bos, Bert Bowman, Neil Brioche, Rudy Caprio, Dan Cargill, Carl Chao, Qu Chester, Jeffrey Colando, Amy Cunche, Mathieu Doty, Nick Fette, Ian Fielding, Roy Gao, Hanrui Glueck, Sue Gombert, Alanna Grant, Euan Hall, Joseph Harvey, Sean Heffernan, Ronan Hu, Bin Israel, Susan Jaffe, Daniel Jaffe, Jeff Krauss, Simon Kulick, Brad Kwong, Kennie Li, Jessica McDonald, Aleecia Min, Yue Neuenschwander, Erik O'Connor, Theresa O'Neill, Mike Riordan-Butterworth, Brendan Scarborough, Keith Schauf, Thomas Schunter, Matthias Seltzer, Wendy Sherman, Rob Singer, David Smith, Kevin Smith, Michael[tm] Sullivan, Bryan Tao, Weihua tian, caten Tien, Lee Toner, Alan Toubiana, Vincent Turransky, Alan van Eijk, Rob van Holst, Walter Wagner, Frank West, Heather West, Heather Wiley, Shane Wu, Jing Yan, Xuemei Zhang, Yuanzhou Zhao, Yangguang Zhou, Horace

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First, the introduction is written from the industry standpoint; e.g. the rationale for DNT is “we don’t want to offend the user because this leads to lost revenue,” rather than “the user has certain privacy rights that we must respect.” Moreover, as noted above, users’ privacy interests are aligned against both commercial and government actors.

Second, we are concerned about the presence of statements like “Advertising revenue is the single largest source of funding on the Web.” We do not know if this is true and we question its relevance here. The Internet includes vast non-commercial contributions of universities, government, libraries, nonprofit organizations and individual users. We expect that the W3C DNT standard will be adopted by these non-commercial entities as well.

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