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Nice! There is a specification being worked on "[...]that conveys a person's request to websites and services to not sell or share their personal information with third parties".

globalprivacycontrol.github.io…

Their landing page can be found here: globalprivacycontrol.org

#tracking #protection #privacy #specification #globalprivacycontrol


Global Privacy Control — Take Control Of Your Privacy

Exercise your privacy rights in one step via the “Global Privacy Control” (GPC) signal, a proposed specification backed by over a dozen organizations.
globalprivacycontrol.org
#privacy #tracking #specification #protection #globalprivacycontrol
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Claudius (legacy account)
Claudius (legacy account)
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not to diminish this effort, but we already hat the DNT header before that and nobody gave a shit about it. I don't think this problem can be solved by technology alone :-(
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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More than that: DNT was successfully used for about a decade by these very same companies (with the complicity of Mozilla) to stave of regulation in the name of “self regulation.”
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Ah, and I just had a look. See some familiar faces in there. And a couple whose business model relies on people farming. Interesting, no? :)
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