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I don't know what legal ramifications could follow sites which declare they support Do Not Track as a spec but in actuality do not support any of the features o

I don't know what legal ramifications could follow sites which declare they support Do Not Track as a spec but in actuality do not support any of the features of the spec in a meaningful way. Other than just bad press if discovered, I don't think there is any punishment for not properly following a technical spec outside of civil lawsuits.

thwarted 14y ago
sites which declare they support Do Not Track as a spec but in actuality do not support any of the features of the spec in a meaningful way Seems that it's like P3P[0], in that it causes problems for developers but in no way keeps a company from asserting things that they don't actually follow, and there's no way to verify that they are. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
fizx 14y ago
The FTC would likely investigate, if you had a non-trivial number of users. You really don't want this.
- lwat 14y ago
  What if they're not in the USA?
  - fizx 14y ago
    European regulators are worse, China is its own story, everywhere else is pretty lax afaik.
    - lwat 14y ago
      So who cares, shady operators will just move?