http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-new-do-not-track1-2010dec10,0,121956.story
Federal Trade Commission current in House Sub-Committee meetings - read more
“”If a broad percentage of people signed on to this, it would really undercut the Internet model,” said Stuart Ingis, counsel to the Digital Advertising Alliance, a trade group whose members include Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.”
“The mechanism, which consumers would have to activate once, would send a signal to each website visited indicating that the person’s data should not be tracked and that the person did not want to receive advertisements targeted to past searches or other online history.”
I don’t think it is cool when ever the government gets involved. If the button was the only thing involved and it would just turn off cookies etc.. I would be cool with it.
Actually, when I was composing my original post, that’s what I thought it was. Even so, my post only addressed technical elements in the post that I was responding to. But I agree with you, I’m not sure this is a problem that needs a government fix either.