Comments on: NY Times on Online Data Collection and Sharing http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/03/26/ny-times-on-online-data-collection-and-sharing/ information ethics : privacy : new media : values in design : 2.0 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Christopher Soghoian http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/03/26/ny-times-on-online-data-collection-and-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-158975 Christopher Soghoian Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:50:56 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1178#comment-158975 Hi guys, I've supported exelate in my add-on since the very first version, although I list them by their old name "exelator" on my site. I'll change that soon. Their system is a bit of a pain in the ass, as it requires opt-out cookies for about six different domain names. As of v1.5 released this past weekend, Blue Kai is now supported. Finally, I don't support Purmuto -- but then, they don't even have a privacy policy on their website, let alone an opt-out mechanism. Thanks for installing TACO guys. Hi guys,

I’ve supported exelate in my add-on since the very first version, although I list them by their old name “exelator” on my site. I’ll change that soon. Their system is a bit of a pain in the ass, as it requires opt-out cookies for about six different domain names.

As of v1.5 released this past weekend, Blue Kai is now supported.

Finally, I don’t support Purmuto — but then, they don’t even have a privacy policy on their website, let alone an opt-out mechanism.

Thanks for installing TACO guys.

]]> By: Venkat http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/03/26/ny-times-on-online-data-collection-and-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-158845 Venkat Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:06:18 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1178#comment-158845 Interesting. I'm curious about your thoughts on whether legislation is necessary to address plain vanilla (BlueKai-type) information gathering. Notwithstanding the comment above, it seems like the TACO extension and surfing w/o cookies are easy alternatives that users just need to educate themselves about. Regarding the drug companies, there was a case from 5 or so years ago that addressed a similar practice (not sure how factually similar): In re Pharmatrak Interesting. I’m curious about your thoughts on whether legislation is necessary to address plain vanilla (BlueKai-type) information gathering. Notwithstanding the comment above, it seems like the TACO extension and surfing w/o cookies are easy alternatives that users just need to educate themselves about.

Regarding the drug companies, there was a case from 5 or so years ago that addressed a similar practice (not sure how factually similar): In re Pharmatrak

]]> By: dmcj http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/03/26/ny-times-on-online-data-collection-and-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-158844 dmcj Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:19:51 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1178#comment-158844 "I checked out my profile on both sites, but they didn’t have anything on me, probably becuase I’ve installed Chris Soghoian’s Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out plugin." Looks like this plugin does not yet block BlueKai cookies: http://www.dubfire.net/opt-out/ Nor does it block cookies from the rest of the folks in this data exchange space: eXelate, Permuto, etc. A more plausible reason for BlueKai not knowing anything about you is that they still have a reasonably small network of sites. “I checked out my profile on both sites, but they didn’t have anything on me, probably becuase I’ve installed Chris Soghoian’s Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out plugin.”

Looks like this plugin does not yet block BlueKai cookies: http://www.dubfire.net/opt-out/

Nor does it block cookies from the rest of the folks in this data exchange space: eXelate, Permuto, etc.

A more plausible reason for BlueKai not knowing anything about you is that they still have a reasonably small network of sites.

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