I'm confused; john, could you point to the element of the collected data that isn't collected already by default in any Nginx or Apache setup? I agree that there might be a lack of user expectation, but 'silently capturing behavioral data' seems somewhat hyperbolic to describe what's actually going on.
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Andrew Gray <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Fair enough - I don't use it, and I think I'd got entirely the wrong > > end of the stick on what it's for! If it's intended to stop tracking > > by third-party sites then it certainly seems to be of little relevance > > here. > > I think you're right to be concerned about this. > It is about expectations; people do not expect a NGO providing an > encyclopedia to be silently capturing reading behaviour data. > > If the data is provided to other entities, even for noble research > objectives, people expect "Do Not Track" to cover this. > > https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6573 > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Sent from my mobile computing device of Lovecraftian complexity and horror.
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