Dear Google: Do Not Track Me
<strong>In the same vein as the popular Do
Not Call list, privacy advocates would like a Do Not Track that would
allow people to opt out of having their online behavior monitored.</strong>
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“That’s kind of a fundamental human right,” argued John Simpson, an advocate with <a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.orgcorporateering//">Consumer Watchdog</a>. “The books that people have been taking out of the library are not something that’s shared, and <a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/09/64945">librarians have fought to maintain that</a>.
Generally, you can’t go in and say, ‘What’s my wife been reading on her
library card? What’s my son been reading on our library card?’ It’s
private. In the same way, the Internet is a great source of information, and
people ought to be able to consider that their activity online is
private in the same way. The fact of the matter is that it’s not right
now.”
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