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kovar
on May 6, 2011
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Google, Facebook: "do not track" bill a threat to ...
I found the most interesting part of this article the following quote: "... and would make them more vulnerable to security threats." Allowing users to opt out of tracking
increases
their security threat? I'd like to see more detail on this.
Goronmon
on May 6, 2011
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Sites such as a banking site, track user location to help determine whether it's actually you logging in, or some account phisher overseas.
Allowing users to opt-out of such tracking would make those sites less secure.
DrJ
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or it might make it more secure by opt-in to being tracked where you are accessing it from.
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Can you try rewording this? As I'm having zero luck trying to figure out what you meant to say. :(
eddieplan9
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Exactly. I find glorifying user-tracking like that really disgusting.
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