EFF Unveils DNT Policy Implementation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released its Do Not Track (DNT) policy to promote service provider compliance and user privacy, EFF said in a blog post Monday. The new policy is the "logical engine" behind the group's free anti-tracker plug-in for…
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Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger (see 1508060043 and 1508040019), EFF said. "When a user turns on DNT... compliant service providers agree to turn off much of their tracking capabilities," the blog post said. "Our policy explains how those service providers should act." EFF said the policy "strikes a balance between user privacy and the needs of data service operators" and that Privacy Badger will seek to enforce DNT's principles if companies don't respect them. Companies voluntarily support DNT, said EFF, but once they promise to abide by its conditions, "they can be held to the promise by law." The policy protects users' reading habits and browsing history, and includes exceptions to "accommodate the everyday practicalities of the Web," EFF said.