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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @05:09PM (2 children)
we'll finally have privacy when the state designs our websites for us. all hail the state!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 08 2019, @09:41PM (1 child)
The state has already access to any detail about you life it wants. It's part of the job of providing its services to everyone.
How can you consider that a whataboutist excuse to allow others to get access to that info for private profit ?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @08:07PM
"services" lmao!