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from the next-up-is-the-unicorns-pooping-skittles-act dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Search engine and consumer privacy advocate DuckDuckGo has announced the "Do-Not-Track Act of 2019," a piece of draft legislation that would legally require sites to honor users' tracking preferences.
[...]If the act picks up steam and passes into law, sites would be required to cease certain user tracking methods, which means less data available to inform marketing and advertising campaigns.
The impact could also cascade into platforms that leverage consumer data, possibly making them less effective. For example, one of the advantages of advertising on a platform like Google or Facebook is the ability to target audiences. If a user enables DNT, the ads displayed to them when on browsing[sic] those websites won't be informed by their external browsing history.
[Ed Note: By proposed they mean "That's why we're announcing draft legislation that can serve as a starting point for legislators in America and beyond. "]
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday May 09 2019, @03:46AM
What about the fact that DuckDuckGo's founder Gabriel Weinberg previously founded the Names Database, whose sole purpose was collecting user data and selling that data for profit?
It doesn't prove anything, but it's enough for me to give DDG a wide berth. If nothing else, it supports GP's claim that DDG cares only about profit above all else. Gabriel thought selling user data was lucrative yesterday, he thinks privacy is lucrative today, what's to say he doesn't sell out tomorrow?
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