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"The Do Not Track standard would be utterly deceptive to users and act as a disguise for continuation of unfair and intransparent business practices," he said.
Increasing awareness about marketers' peeping and user attempts to escape it are probably why the consortium of "stakeholders" (media companies and privacy advocates) that was to come up with the "Do Not Track" standard actually voted to disband last fall.
It outlined the rights above and tasked the Federal Trade Commission with enforcing them; the first concrete action was to be the development of a "Do Not Track" standard, allowing consumers to simply shake their electronic tail.
This came about as a result of Dr Soghoian's support for the "Do Not Track" standard, and his efforts to make it easier for people to prevent their use of the internet being tracked by advertisers.
After nearly two years of negotiating and little progress, the international group trying to agree on a Do Not Track standard is convening its final official face-to-face meeting next week in Sunnyvale, Calif.
That is the verdict of the leaders of a working group that has been arguing for almost two years over how to establish a uniform Do Not Track standard for the Internet.
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When the W3C met recently in Amsterdam to hammer out Do Not Track standards, as my colleague Kevin J. O'Brien reported in an article earlier this month, advertising industry executives and privacy advocates accused each other of trying to stymie the process.
On Wednesday, the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, the international consortium that has been trying to develop technical Do Not Track standards, said that Mr. Swire would take over as co-chairman of its Tracking Protection Working Group.
Oppenheim explained that while the W3C is working to develop its own Do Not Track standards, they've focused on how users can signal their desire not to be tracked.
While the consortium released two Do Not Track standards in 2015, both opposed by privacy advocates, its negotiations still continue.
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