Hiding Online Footprints

[ljbirns]

This from the Wall Street Journal of November 30, 2010

Hiding Online Footprints
Makers of Firefox Browser Explore Do-Not-Track Tool After Scrapping Earlier Effort

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704584804575645074178700984.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

[Renegade]

Hmmm...

Browser: "Please don't track my user."
Ad Company: "Ummm... Sure. Trust me!"

I can't see that working.

It sounds like how using large caliber machine guns against human targets is against the Geneva convention, so soldiers aim for people's shirt buttons...

[ljbirns]

And now the Feds want to get into the act......
Agency Proposes ‘Do Not Track’ Option for Web Users
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/business/media/02privacy.html?_r=1&hp