CPOs Challenged with Meeting Privacy Expectations and Maintaining Full User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – People who interact with online services have mounting privacy expectations that run in parallel with their need for a full experience with the functionality central to those services. But can users have their privacy cake and eat it too? That’s the challenging question facing...

FTC Endorses New Privacy Guidelines, Do Not Track for Mobile Apps, Devices

Hoping to ramp up privacy on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a series of suggestions to help app developers, advertising networks and device companies better protect their users online. As it’s done over the last two years with browser...

Google Implements Do Not Track in Chrome 23

Nearly two years after other browser vendors implemented it, Google on Tuesday finally released a version of Chrome that supports the Do Not Track functionality that helps users prevent Web sites from following their movements around the Web. Google’s move to include the technology is a response ...

Chrome 23 Released, 14 vulnerabilities patched

Google today released Chrome version 23 to the Stable Channel. 23.0.1271.64 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Update includes patch for 12 vulnerabilities in the Windows version and two vulnerabilities in Mac OS X version. Chrome 23 is the support of the Do Not Track DNT protocol, number...

Calling Foul on the Political Football That is Do Not Track

It looks like it’s time for a do-over for DNT. The oft-maligned specification has become—like many other standards efforts before it—a political football. Parties with interests on both sides of the issue have their own agendas, cannot agree on semantics and ignore, in this case, what should be t...

First Signs of Google's Do Not Track Feature Begin to Surface on Chrome

Google Chrome is indeed getting a Do Not Track DNT feature according to source code published in the developer’s release of the browser at the end of last week. The feature should clear Google’s dev and beta channels before making its way into the next stable build of the browser before the end o...

Apache Blocks IE 10 Do Not Track Privacy Setting

The co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project is under fire for a patch that instructs the world’s most popular Web server to ignore the Do Not Track privacy setting enabled by default in Internet Explorer 10. Do Not Track is a specification under consideration by the W3C and under development...

Google Settles With FTC Over Tracking Cookies, Pays $22.5M Fine

Google has agreed to pay a $22.5 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that the company set tracking cookies on the machines of Safari users, after saying that it would not use such tracking measures or serve targeted ads to the users. The FTC investigation began after a...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

EU Officials, Privacy Agencies Attempt to Clarify Cookie Rules

Officials in Europe this week are hoping to set clearer rules for online advertisers with new guidelines that are supported by the continent’s leading digital privacy agencies. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, agencies from the European Union’s EU member countries met last week...

In Face of Advertisers, Microsoft To Make Do Not Track Feature Default on IE10

Microsoft yesterday announced its intent to implement its “Do Not Track” DNT functionality by default in the next iteration of its web browser, Internet Explorer 10, a shift that has already begun to ruffle the feathers of online advertisers. In a post to its TechNet blog, the company’s Chief...

Twitter Implements Do Not Track

Twitter has implemented the Do Not Track header on its site, giving users the option of telling the site that they do not want to be tracked across other sites on the Web. The implementation is being done through the DNT technology in the Firefox browser. Firefox, like other major browsers, allow...

Opera 12 Beta Released With New Security Features, Including Do Not Track Support

This seems to be the season for major new versions of browsers. A couple of days after Mozilla released Firefox 12, Opera has pushed out a beta of version 12 of its browser, which includes several security updates, such as private browsing and support for the Do Not Track header. The new version ...

Yahoo to Implement Do Not Track

Yahoo has decided that it’s now time to start implementing a Do Not Track system across its various Web properties. The company is one of the last large Web content providers to officially commit to using a DNT technology, and Yahoo said that it plans to have the system implemented by early summe...

FTC Privacy Framework Pushes for Do Not Track, Closer Inspection of Data Brokers

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new report on consumer privacy and online tracking and among the recommendations the commission makes is that data brokers make themselves known to consumers and be open and transparent about the data they collect on consumers. The FTC also says that...

Mozilla Implements Do Not Track for Mobile Devices Via Boot to Gecko

As the privacy and tracking debate rages in the desktop arena, Mozilla has made a jump to the mobile world by announcing its new Boot to Gecko project, which will include an implementation of the Do Not Track technology on mobile devices. This is the first such implementation and it will give use...

Fedora 15 : firefox-9.0.1-1.fc15 / gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-35.fc15.4 / nspr-4.8.9-2.fc15 / etc (2011-17399)

The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird have the following changes : - Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance - Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript - Added support for font-stretch - Improved support for text-overflow - Improved...

Fedora 16 : firefox-9.0-3.fc16 / nss-3.13.1-9.fc16 / nss-softokn-3.13.1-14.fc16 / etc (2011-17400)

The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird have the following changes : - Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance - Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript - Added support for font-stretch - Improved support for text-overflow - Improved...

W3C Publishes Do Not Track Proposal

The W3C has proposed a standard for implementing the Do Not Track mechanism for both users and site owners, wading into what has become a contentious and fractious debate. The proposed standard, known as the Tracking Preference Expression, is designed to give users the ability to tell sites what...

Mozilla Releases Field Guide to Do Not Track

Mozilla has released a comprehensive guide to the use and implementation of the Do Not Track technology that’s included in its Firefox browser, in an effort to give developers and advertisers a better handle on how the technology works and how users are taking advantage of it. The Do Not Track...