On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I second Aaron’s concerns, which I previously expressed during the
>> consultation about the new privacy policy. My main objection to the
>> proposed solution is that by saying “Wikimedia honors DNT headers” we imply
>> – by the most popular/de facto interpretation of DNT – that we *do* 3rd
>> party tracking but we* allow* users to opt out, which puts WMF on par
>> with aggressive tracking practices adopted by most sites.
>>
>
> But we wouldn't say that; that would be silly. We'd make it completely
> clear that we are making use of the header that we think is consistent with
> the expectation of users but which departs from the standard in a
> significant way.
>

I, too, agree that this is something we (Comms) can handle through proper
communications. It's not a big concern for me.

Leila
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