[Geopriv] "Do not track" header field

"Richard L. Barnes" <rbarnes@bbn.com> Mon, 24 January 2011 21:38 UTC

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This will likely come up on the WEBSEC list as well, but I thought this might be interesting to GEOPRIV folks:

Mozilla and Google Chrome are proposing to extend browsers to send a "do not track" HTTP header of the following form:
X-Tracking-Choice: do-not-track

This seems like another example of users sending along privacy preferences with their data, just like PIDF-LO privacy rules, Creative Commons licenses, etc.

References:
<http://firstpersoncookie.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/more-choice-and-control-over-online-tracking/>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628197>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628198>  

--Richard