European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance

Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by pgeorgi on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:34PM (#28830784)

As mentioned in a sister thread, europa.eu uses the browser's DNT header (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...) to see if they should bother asking for tracking.

Browser vendors tried to establish such a standard but it pretty much died when Microsoft enabled it by default for IE9 and some ad brokers began to claim that they can now ignore DNT because it doesn't actually reflect user intent anymore. (see https://www.theregister.com/2015/04/03/microsoft_reverses_ie...)

With that it became deprecated. Thank you, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by simion314 on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:57PM (#28831656)

You still find people here on HN that want to be tracked, they are convinced that tracking is necessary. So a browser could implement something to shut this people up, Instead of a simple flag On or off, you can start with 3 states, On, Off, Unset and you can have it set per webpage.

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Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by pgeorgi on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:05PM (#28834109)

The DNT spec offers these three states. It also doesn't say anything about it being global, so a browser UI could have a default + overrides.

The general sentiment seems to be that "if you want it, you want it, and who would want it explictly off?"

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