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W3C Moves Closer to Do Not Track Standards

Posted on July 22, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Christopher Avery and Bryan Thompson write:

The long running struggle to develop technical standards for the implementation of a do not track (DNT) specification is moving closer to completion. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group recently released a “last call working draft” of its tracking compliance specification. The specification would establish server-side standards for honoring a user’s DNT preference.

The draft specification would require, among other things, that a first party organization not share any “network interactions” with any third parties if the user sets the DNT preference in their browser.

Read more on DavisWrightTremaine Privacy & Security Law Blog.

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