Online Tracking, Consumer Protection, and Web Standards
Today, the W3C announced the creation of a Tracking Protection Working Group to work on defining what tracking is, signaling user intent, and tracking protection lists. The W3C’s action here can help protect consumers from unwanted tracking. We welcome the opportunity to work with the industry and governments on a Web standard based on our earlier work.
The Tracking Protection feature in IE9 provides a way for consumers to benefit today by restricting which sites on the Web get information from them.
The W3C accepted and published Microsoft’s member submission for an Internet standard to help protect consumer privacy last February. IE9 supports the “Do-Not-Track” header/DOM property and Tracking Protection Lists outlined in that W3C submission. The W3C noted that the submission was “…both timely and well-aligned with the consortium's objectives and priorities” and announced a workshop at Princeton University to continue standardisation work for Web privacy and tracking protection. Microsoft presented two papers at the workshop in April. The workshop report summarises the two days of passionate discussions with nearly a hundred participants from academia, government, advertising companies, browser vendors and major Web sites.
In the months since the workshop, the W3C has continued to discuss the best way to structure this work with the various stakeholders. As Dean noted last December, defining what the Do-Not-Track signal means and what to do with it is an important part of completing this work. We are looking forward to working with the Web community on this important initiative at the W3C.
—Adrian Bateman, Program Manager, Internet Explorer
Comments
Anonymous
September 08, 2011
Why does my IE 9 keep defaulting to IE 7 Standards... this is so frustrating!!!!Anonymous
September 08, 2011
The blog post blogs.msdn.com/.../testing-sites-with-browser-mode-vs-doc-mode.aspx describes how IE9 determines a page's document mode and how to investigate document modes with the F12 developer tools.Anonymous
September 08, 2011
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September 08, 2011
@Arieta You can change the document mode in IE9 by bringing up the dveloper tools by pressing F12Anonymous
September 08, 2011
@Anonymous I know about that, what I meant was a permanent list, so the site always comes up in mode x. The current compatibility view lists achieve the same, but only for switching to older standards modes. I'm talking about switching to a newer compatibility mode, and make the site load that way all the time.Anonymous
September 08, 2011
Great! :) But please, make a visible checkbox option to enable the "Do-Not-Track" header in the internet options's privacy tab. This is way it is easier for users to enable it. Thank you.Anonymous
September 08, 2011
Also, there should be a way to view (and possibly delete one by one) the cookies/localstorage currently stored directly through the UI (in the Internet Options window).Anonymous
September 08, 2011
This blog is too fat to download, please use the same solution to the site b8 windows. I hope that my words are heard. I waiting for your reply I thank you for your attention.Anonymous
September 08, 2011
Hello, I have a question.. Will Internet Explorer 10.0 support text shadows?Anonymous
September 09, 2011
@Mario, Text-Shadow for HTML5 and SVG are in release candidate phase at W3. So, you need to wait till the standard gets finalize.Anonymous
September 09, 2011
open the page in IE10 document mode - tavmjong.free.fr/.../svg_tests.php Apparently, IE10pp2 doesnt support drop shadow whereas Chrome does!Anonymous
September 10, 2011
Please support Google Spdy in IE10. Thanks.Anonymous
September 12, 2011
@Marko Apparently Chrome only supports 90% of CSS2.1 (89.58 out of 99.87) whereas IE supports 99% (98.89 out of 99.99) test.csswg.org/.../results.htmlAnonymous
September 12, 2011
@Arieta IE already has a personalized TPL feature.Anonymous
September 13, 2011
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September 18, 2011
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