European commissioner Neelie Kroes has accused members of the online industry of watering down a standard designed to protect consumers’ privacy on the web.Websites are under pressure to allow consumers much greater control over how they are tracked online.But work undertaken by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create a Do Not Track (DNT) standard was “not going to plan”, said Ms Kroes.She is angry about delays and a proposal to exempt marketing.
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Do Not Track standard needs action says European commissioner
European commissioner Neelie Kroes has accused members of the online industry of watering down a standard designed to protect consumers’ privacy on the web.