Web privacy tools to warn of internet tracking cookies

[Jazzy]

nternet users will receive a warning if sites do not respect their privacy thanks to new tools being developed by the web's standards setting body.



The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) wants to help users control how their personal data is managed.



It is designing controls to shield personal data and reveal when sites do not honour privacy requests.



The W3C now wants users, browser makers and businesses to help finish and implement the specifications.



Users have the feeling they are being being tracked and some users have privacy concerns and would like to solve them, said Dr Matthias Schunter from IBM who chairs the W3C group drawing up the Do Not Track technologies.



Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15723407

 

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nternet users will receive a warning if sites do not respect their privacy thanks to new tools being developed by the web's standards setting body.

Provided browsers implement these standards of course...

 

[Jazzy]

[font=tahoma, geneva, sans-serif]You're right about that EE. I don't see why they wouldn't but then again, they may choose not to. I had a strange message yesterday on a site a clicked on. It said my privacy was not protected and I should not proceed. I got the heck off that site!

 

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You're right about that EE. I don't see why they wouldn't but then again, they may choose not to.

Yeah, I guess there's no reason not to implement these things, but you never know.

I should probably read those specs...

I had a strange message yesterday on a site a clicked on. It said my privacy was not protected and I should not proceed. I got the heck off that site!

You shouldn't worry too much about that message (depending on what you're doing). It only gives those messages if a site has a security certificate, but doesn't encrypt its traffic. Sites without a certificate (Off Topix included), don't normally encrypt traffic anyway.

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95617

 

[Jazzy]

@EE: Thank you very much for that information and the link!