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Stanford privacy advocate gives up on ‘Do Not Track’ group

[Philip Lelyveld comment; sometime the market cannot supply solutions.]

This week, Mayer resigned in exasperation after concluding that 10 in-person meetings and 78 conference calls over nearly two years had achieved precisely nothing. In his good-bye email, he wrote:

“We do not have a credible timetable—and we’ve just adjourned for a month. We do not have a definitive base text. We do not have straightforward guidelines on what amendments are allowed… This is not process: this is the absence of process. Given the lack of a viable path to consensus, I can no longer justify the substantial time, travel, and effort associated with continuing in the Working Group.”

The slow process described by Mayer can be seen as a tactical victory for digital advertising industry groups, which oppose efforts to limit the data collection that fuels their business.

Read the full story here: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/01/stanford-privacy-advocate-gives-up-on-do-not-track-group/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=bbcbb0f475-c%3Amed+d%3A08-05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1dd83065c6-bbcbb0f475-99147229