On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Max Semenik wrote:
> Does EL honor Do Not Track?

Due to controversies around the “Do Not Track” header, “honors” here
is a difficult term for me.
But currently EventLogging logs events that came with “DNT: 1” :-(

Best regards,
Christian

P.S.: I am actively seeking community expectations around “Do Not
Track” handling and general privacy expectations around WMF
Analytics. So please do voice opinions. Be it here, private email, IRC
or through some other means.

When we evaluated the last spec draft (Jan/Feb?) "do not track" in the specification quite clearly and explicitly meant "do not allow tracking by *third parties*". So the tracking we do internally is permissible, whether or not DNT: 1 is set.

FAQ about it is here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/FAQ#What_are_Do_Not_Track_.28.22DNT.22.29_signals_and_how_does_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_respond_to_them.3F

That said, a few weeks ago W3C published a last call draft, and I have not evaluated it yet, so things may have changed. (As late as December the draft defined neither "track" nor "third party", which was... frustrating.)

Luis

Luis Villa
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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