Re: [projectvrm] Microsoft's default DNT setting in IE10

[Lee Fisher < >]

On 6/8/12 4:35 AM, Mark Lizar wrote:
> This is pure advertising industry lobby. Similar issues happen all
> the time for example  the industry challenged the Drivers Privacy
> Protection Act (2000), as it requires opt-in from drivers to be
> marketed too and tracked.  The industry launched a constitutional
> challenge to this opt-in and in survived the U.S? Supreme court.

The Tor project has already given up on DNT (using Firefox, not IE10).

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5545
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Nick and Roger suggested that we figure out how to communicate to policy 
people in their own language why we are reluctant to believe DNT will 
actually accomplish anything productive, and therefore why we are 
reluctant to endorse it.

I hold a slightly more extreme position: That DNT is actually likely to 
introduce a regulatory sinkhole that we want no part of. In almost every 
case, we should be developing end to end cryptographic strategies to 
dealing with the issue of infrastructure trust and tracking.

We should spend the time to communicate these ideas to the DNT folks. To 
quote Roger, "the more the policy people think they're solving the 
problem, the less likely anybody is to solve the problem."
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