I’m searching for references looking at user perception of third-party behavioral tracking vs logging, any pointer would be appreciated.
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 8:16 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > I didn’t reference the McDonald study in my reply, but I too am not > particularly persuaded by the conclusions. > > “Many think it means they will not be tracked at all, including collection” > > suggests to me a fundamental lack of literacy among the users surveyed about > what data that browsers pass with HTTP requests. > >> On Jan 16, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Dario Taraborelli <da...@wikimedia.org >> <mailto:da...@wikimedia.org>> wrote: >> >> Ori, >> >>> we are making use of the header that we think is consistent with the >>> expectation of users >> >> based on what evidence? >> >> I’ve seen a single reference cited in this thread pointing to a study that >> candidly declares in its abstract: >> >> “Because Do Not Track is so new, as far as we know this is the first >> scholarship on this topic. This paper has been neither presented nor >> published. “ [1] >> >> The ample and representative sample considered by the EFF is well captured >> at the beginning of this statement: >> >> “Intuitively, users who we’ve talked to want Do Not Track to provide >> meaningful limits on collection and retention of data.” >> >> Nobody is questioning the need to be transparent to our users about what >> data we’re collecting, how long this data is retained and what it’s being >> used for. But I see a thread full of handwaving statements about “what users >> really want”, in contrast to a pretty straightforward truth that nobody who >> participated in this thread would challenge: >> >>> which departs from the standard in a significant way. >> >> >> I don’t see myself blessing a proposal that represents “a significant >> departure from the standard” and I’d love to see more substantial evidence >> on user expectations to justify this. >> >> Dario >> >> [1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1993133 >> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1993133>
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