IE 9’s anti-tracking feature ‘flawed',->
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Melchett writes "Jonathan Mayer, lead researcher on Stanford University’s ‘Do Not Track’ Project, said the findings by Which? Computing could leave IE9 users open to being tracked: ‘The issue here is that if a user installs TPLs that have ‘allows’ for web content that should be blocked, they leave themselves vulnerable to being tracked,’ he said.
He added: ‘The TRUSTe TPL is almost exclusively what we’d call an ‘allow’ list. It ‘allows’ content from Acxiom, a major data aggregator. If you want to stop your online behaviour from being tracked, the last thing you’d want to do is install a list that guarantees that Acxiom can track you.’"
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He added: ‘The TRUSTe TPL is almost exclusively what we’d call an ‘allow’ list. It ‘allows’ content from Acxiom, a major data aggregator. If you want to stop your online behaviour from being tracked, the last thing you’d want to do is install a list that guarantees that Acxiom can track you.’"
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