On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Fair enough - I don't use it, and I think I'd got entirely the wrong end of the stick on what it's for! If it's intended to stop tracking by third-party sites then it certainly seems to be of little relevance here.
I think you're right to be concerned about this. It is about expectations; people do not expect a NGO providing an encyclopedia to be silently capturing reading behaviour data.
If the data is provided to other entities, even for noble research objectives, people expect "Do Not Track" to cover this.
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6573