Un breve ma utile articolo della EFF sul braccaggio ai danni dei naviganti:
There is a lot of discussion about Do Not Track at the moment. The FTC has
announced support for the idea; Mozilla has
added a Do Not Track header option into Firefox betas, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier has
introduced a Do Not Track bill. Other proposed privacy legislation, such as Rep.
Bobby Rush's bill, could also achieve similar objectives. And yesterday, EFF submitted
comments urging the Federal Trade Commission to defend online privacy by supporting the header-based Do Not Track feature.
Do Not Track is important because it creates a policy mechanism to augment the privacy enhancing technologies that we currently have. There is an arms race between practical privacy tools and
ubiquitous online tracking, and we fear that the trackers have
powerful techniques that will almost always
allow them to win the arms race against ordinary people.
Some other anti-tracking technologies have also been discussed a lot recently, including
Microsoft's IE 9
Tracking Protection Lists, and
AdBlock Plus with
EasyPrivacy. These are great tools, and very much complimentary to the Do Not Track header proposal. We'll be posting about them at greater length soon.<p>Do Not Track is a technically simple proposal: add a header