MS tacks Mozilla ‘Do Not Track’ header onto W3C submission

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Published on February 25, 2011

published on February 25, 2011

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In a move that melds sneaky with shrewd, Microsoft has added Mozilla’s Do Not Track browser header to the submission of its Tracking Protection proposal to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This potentially leaves Google – the third of the three contenders for privacy-enhanced browsing – isolated in a self-regulatory alliance with a gaggle of US ad networks, while Microsoft sidles closer to the kind of solution the regulators are likely to go for…

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