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Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track"

Posted by timothy on from the except-for-the-following-circumstances dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Per an op-ed in today's New York Times, Google, Apple, and others would be effectively exempt from "Do not track": "[T]he rules would allow the largest Internet giants to continue scooping up data about users on their own sites and on other sites that include their plug-ins, such as Facebook's 'Like' button or an embedded YouTube video. This giant loophole would make 'Do Not Track' meaningless."

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  1. Re:I automatically disbelieved this post by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course, I have my own opinions but I won't share them because they reflect my own biases.

    That may be the single stupidest sentence in the history of stupid sentences on the Internet.

    You won't share what you think because it's what you think. Everything you see and think and say and do reflects your own biases. If you decide not to share a single bit of data that is floating around in your head if it happens to reflect your biases, that means you will spend the rest of your life mute, which come to think of it might be best for everyone.

    I've just re-read your entire comment and it doesn't seem to say anything at all about anything. Are you a Markov bot? If so, your maker forgot to put in the AI.

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    You are welcome on my lawn.