{"id":19,"date":"2011-06-29T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T22:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/privacy\/?p=19"},"modified":"2016-01-19T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:23:21","slug":"dnt-gaining-traction-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/06\/29\/dnt-gaining-traction-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"DNT Gaining Traction in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The DNT meme has crossed the Atlantic! Two important policy makers in Europe made statements just one week apart supporting Do Not Track (DNT).\u00a0 It appears there’s genuine interest by these EU regulators to determine how a website’s support for DNT meets compliance with legal obligations under the ePrivacy Directive.<\/p>\n

I was in Paris today where Ed Vaizey<\/a>, UK Minister of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, told participants at the OECD High Level Meeting on The Internet Economy<\/a> that “support for DNT is already being explored in the UK” and is part of the discussions underway by his Department’s Browser Working Group.<\/p>\n

The strongest call for DNT in Europe came last week from Neelie Kroes<\/a>, the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe. She told<\/a> those of us participating in the Online Tracking Protection and Browsers Workshop<\/a> in Brussels that “we should collectively pay more attention to the emerging ‘do-not-track’ technologies,” and she challenged industry in Europe to make it happen by June 2012. Here’s the key excerpt from her speech<\/a> (and make sure you read the last sentence below):<\/p>\n

DNT is simple: users can instruct their device or application to accompany all network requests with an indication that they do not want to be tracked. Service providers need to react to such explicit requests.<\/p>\n

DNT has a lot of potential because it can apply:<\/p>\n