ISSUE-122: Should we have use limitations on referrer data?
Should we have use limitations on referrer data?
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Compliance Next
- Raised by:
- Aleecia McDonald
- Opened on:
- 2012-02-01
- Description:
- Taken from the minutes of the 11th January call:
Roy: when you come to a website foo.com, they want to know how did you get there (referrer) as a part of analytics. May also care about where they go to, but referrer is something that is easy to get & is something commonly done. May need a new issue.
Jeff: we do need to talk about referrers. Agrees we can drop 23/34 in light of the larger exception. But referrer information is something we need to discuss.
Lauren: many services/vendors who could do a wide variety of things as a vendor for many companies. Whatever restriction there is on sharing amongst the different clients of a vendor would be the same regardless of whether its analytics or whatever.
Aleecia: two irc discussion points.
i. At a technical level referrer is different. It may be difficult or impossible to do away with collection of referrer data
ii. Use or retention is an issue though.
iii. Thomas: referrer could be used as a way to communicate identifiers across sites.
Amy: Lauren makes a good point about keeping the language as flexible as possible. Question to Roy about referrers. This is something the first party could or would see anyway. What we're more concerned about is additional data.
Roy: referrer is provided as data for the requests. If general first party exception, that would cover it.
Amy: flexible for many business models while preventing first party from seeing things that they would see already. - Related Actions Items:
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- Related emails:
- Re: Mapping the "framework" to ISSUEs (from john@consumerwatchdog.org on 2013-05-07)
- Mapping the "framework" to ISSUEs (from jmayer@stanford.edu on 2013-05-07)
- RE: Proposed agenda for Amsterdam F2F on October 03-05, 2012 (from wileys@yahoo-inc.com on 2012-09-23)
- Proposed agenda for Amsterdam F2F on October 03-05, 2012 (from mts-std@schunter.org on 2012-09-21)
- issue-122 (from aleecia@aleecia.com on 2012-02-04)
- tracking-ISSUE-122: Should we have use limitations on referrer data? [Tracking Definitions and Compliance] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-02-01)
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