Twitter has made an important overture to privacy advocates: It is giving users the ability to opt out of being tracked on the service by enabling the Do Not Track feature in the Firefox browser. Ed Felten, chief technology officer for the Federal Trade Commission, broke the news at an industry event Thursday morning in New York. The company later confirmed it in a message on Twitter. It is a significant move for Twitter, because tracking users with persistent cookies is controversial, said ESET Security Evangelist Stephen Cobb.
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Twitter Takes Privacy High Road
Posted by: Erika Morphy May 17, 2012 03:47 PMTwitter has made an important overture to privacy advocates: It is giving users the ability to opt out of being tracked on the service by enabling the Do Not Track feature in the Firefox browser. Ed Felten, chief technology officer for the Federal Trade Commission, broke the news at an industry event Thursday morning in New York. The company later confirmed it in a message on Twitter. It is a significant move for Twitter, because tracking users with persistent cookies is controversial, said ESET Security Evangelist Stephen Cobb.