EFF Coalition Announces New 'Do Not Track' Standard For Web Browsing

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 3, 2015 @08:00AM from the don't-track-me-bro dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, privacy company Disconnect, and several other organizations are publishing a new DNT standard. Partners in the coalition include: publishing site Medium, analytics service Mixpanel, AdBlock, and private search engine DuckDuckGo. Thought it's still a voluntary policy, the EFF hopes the new proposed standard will provide users better privacy online. "We are greatly pleased that so many important Web services are committed to this powerful new implementation of Do Not Track, giving their users a clear opt-out from stealthy online tracking and the exploitation of their reading history," said EFF Chief Computer Scientist Peter Eckersley. "These companies understand that clear and fair practices around analytics and advertising are essential not only for privacy but for the future of online commerce."

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Re:Riddle me this by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-03 21:31 · Score: 1, Informative

New York and London have similar levels of violent crime. However, London has slightly more vehicle theft, but the New York homicide rate is almost 3 times that of London. Amazingly guns do kill people, who knew?