On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Christian Aistleitner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Max Semenik wrote:
> > Does EL honor Do Not Track?
>
> Due to controversies around the “Do Not Track” header, “honors” here
> is a difficult term for me.
> But currently EventLogging logs events that came with “DNT: 1” :-(
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
>
> P.S.: I am actively seeking community expectations around “Do Not
> Track” handling and general privacy expectations around WMF
> Analytics. So please do voice opinions. Be it here, private email, IRC
> or through some other means.


When we evaluated the last spec draft (Jan/Feb?) "do not track" in the
specification quite clearly and explicitly meant "do not allow tracking by
*third parties*". So the tracking we do internally is permissible, whether
or not DNT: 1 is set.

FAQ about it is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/FAQ#What_are_Do_Not_Track_.28.22DNT.22.29_signals_and_how_does_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_respond_to_them.3F

That said, a few weeks ago W3C published a last call draft, and I have not
evaluated it yet, so things may have changed. (As late as December the
draft defined neither "track" nor "third party", which was... frustrating.)

Luis

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