Is the Dutch DPA investigation of YD the beginning of the end for "AdChoices”?

Is the Dutch DPA investigation of YD the beginning of the end for "AdChoices”?

Imagine - you walk into a shoe shop and while you are looking at some trainers someone sneaks up and sticks a notice on your back. Later you are in a café, and you see someone at the next table stare intently at your back and write something in a ...

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WP29 Welcomes DoNotTrack, But Says Consent Still Required If DNT Unset.

WP29 Welcomes DoNotTrack, But Says Consent Still Required If DNT Unset.

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29), an independent advisory body set up in 1995 under the auspices of the EU Data Protection Directive and composed of representatives of all European Data Protection supervisory authorities, has sent a public comment to the W3C about the Tracking Preference Expression (TPE), ...

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E-Privacy, Data Protection Law, and the Do Not Track signal.

E-Privacy, Data Protection Law, and the Do Not Track signal.

The body responsible for Do Not Track (DNT), the W3C’s Tracking Protection Working Group will shortly be releasing the technical part of the standard in a process named Last Call (LC) when implementers and others can review it and make comments. Unlike other W3C standards at this stage the core ...

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Ghostery + GhostRank (Evidon) – an Analysis by CookieQ.

Ghostery + GhostRank (Evidon) – an Analysis by CookieQ.

Baycloud Systems sets the record straight. For some time Evidon, formerly known as Better Advertising, – acquirer of the Ghostery ad blocking browser extension, have been publishing misleading information about Baycloud Systems and our CookieQ product. As they have not even bothered to reply to communications requesting them to stop ...

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Do Not Track set on over 12% of requests to sample sites in Europe.

Do Not Track set on over 12% of requests to sample sites in Europe.

Internet Explorer 10 now accounts for over 70% of all requests with DNT set. The percentage of web requests with the DNT header set in our sample of European websites is approaching 13% The percentage of DNT requests coming from Chrome users remains at a much reduced level since version ...

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Internet Explorer now responsible for a significant proportion of Do Not Track signals

Internet Explorer now responsible for a significant proportion of Do Not Track signals

Internet Explorer 10 compensates for declining Chrome DNT usage The number of web requests to European websites from users of Internet Explorer is approaching 4% of the total. The percentage of DNT requests coming from Chrome users has plummeted, probably since the latest version started rolling out towards the end ...

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Field Fisher Waterhouse is wrong in its analysis of the draft Data Protection Regulation.

Field Fisher Waterhouse is wrong in its analysis of the draft Data Protection Regulation.

The law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse has been in the news recently in connection with the unprecedented level of lobbying activity directed against the new Data Protection Regulation, currently being debated in the European Parliament. For example see Data Protection: All You Need to Know about the EU Privacy Debate ...

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Citizens vote for privacy by setting Do Not Track

Citizens vote for privacy by setting Do Not Track

European Data Protection Day Monday, Jan 28th, 2013. The number of web requests to European websites from browsers with Do Not Track set is now over 7% of the total, and rising. Take a look at our dynamic Do Not Track chart below. It is based on aggregated data collected ...

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Our comment to "It’s not about cookies, it’s about privacy" post on Gov.UK GDS site.

Our comment to "It’s not about cookies, it’s about privacy" post on Gov.UK GDS site.

Comment to GDS blog post "It’s not about cookies, it’s about privacy" Mike O'Neill (@incloud) — 20/03/2012 It should be about respecting citizen’s privacy, not implementation convenience. The law requires web publishers not place any information that could identify a visitor on their browser unless they have been given informed ...

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A Comment about Google Analytics on GDS Gov.UK Blog

A Comment about Google Analytics on GDS Gov.UK Blog

Our comment to Gov.UK blog post "Cookies on the Beta" The Google Analytics (__utma) cookie is no more or less “intrusive” than any other piece of inert data. It is simply a number that is unique to a visitor’s browser. The reason this is a data protection issue is that ...

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