by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday September 08, 2012 @09:09AM (#41272757)
In case it has faded from people's memory, PRIVACY IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT [youthforhumanrights.org] - enshrined in laws across the planet.
That wasn't some arbitrary, weird, one-man-and-his-hobby-horse decision, this was the result of a serious amount of very costly and capable people sitting together and hammering out basic principles. A bit like the US Constitution that US politicians appear so keen to ignore.
So, from that principle, not wanting to be tracked IS the legally correct default, DNT should have never been needed, only a "DT" ("Do track, because I don't care about my rights"). If Mr Roy Fielding is writing a patch to override what should have been a default to start with (the jammering and global breaking of this principle by marketing people across the globe does not define breaking the law as rule), then Mr Roy Fielding is effectively on his way to break the law in practically any part of Europe.
DNT is an excuse to casually ignore the fact that fundamental principles were already broken by companies raking it in on the back of breaking fundamental principles (yes, Google and Facebook, I'm looking at you).
Let me put it this way - if this patch goes live anywhere in Europe, a complaint to the relevant government department in charge of Data Protection WILL be made. No ifs, no buts, no maybes.
It's time we start working on people's rights - because with such idiocy and cow-towing to money nobody is going to do it for you.
Except that an EULA is not a legally binding agreement in a large part of the EU, and also many nations in the EU does not permit signing away some rights enshrined in law even with informed consent.
186,000 Miles per Second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.
Legally, DNT *IS* the default (Score:2, Insightful)
In case it has faded from people's memory, PRIVACY IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT [youthforhumanrights.org] - enshrined in laws across the planet.
That wasn't some arbitrary, weird, one-man-and-his-hobby-horse decision, this was the result of a serious amount of very costly and capable people sitting together and hammering out basic principles. A bit like the US Constitution that US politicians appear so keen to ignore.
So, from that principle, not wanting to be tracked IS the legally correct default, DNT should have never been needed, only a "DT" ("Do track, because I don't care about my rights"). If Mr Roy Fielding is writing a patch to override what should have been a default to start with (the jammering and global breaking of this principle by marketing people across the globe does not define breaking the law as rule), then Mr Roy Fielding is effectively on his way to break the law in practically any part of Europe.
DNT is an excuse to casually ignore the fact that fundamental principles were already broken by companies raking it in on the back of breaking fundamental principles (yes, Google and Facebook, I'm looking at you).
Let me put it this way - if this patch goes live anywhere in Europe, a complaint to the relevant government department in charge of Data Protection WILL be made. No ifs, no buts, no maybes.
It's time we start working on people's rights - because with such idiocy and cow-towing to money nobody is going to do it for you.
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