EU Official ‘Concerned’ About W3C’s Privacy Delay

October 10, 2012

Internet standard-setters are watering down a tool that is supposed to help Web users hide their data from companies, the EU’s Internet chief, Neelie Kroes, will say. Neelie Kroes set companies meeting under the banner of a standard-setting body called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) a June deadline — which they missed — to develop a better version of Do Not Track, a tool that would prevent the companies from collecting such data.

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