Actually, it is unclear what the "do not track" actually means. Does in include "do not log" - or "wipe my IP address from the logs after x days"?

Anybody, who does want to not support the biggest trackers (facebook, google, twitter), should (a) deactivate sending cookies to third parties and (b) install ghostery in FireFox. That's much more effective than the "do not track" additional information sent to the tracking web sites.

Yeah. Put him in jail with this Assange guy! What do I say. Burn'em!!!

Firefox with Ghostery is your friend. Forget "do not track" and P3P. They rely on fair play of web sites - which is unreasonable to expect.

I found it interesting that you even might think that this is not a bid deal. For starters: When you buy a printer, are you informed about it printing microdots?

While it is clearly interesting to have an open source format for editing (btw, there are already many), it is far more important to have a standardized and open reader format: The eBook that I buy should be readable on all readers and also convertible to new formats in the future (thus: open and without DRM). When we have this, the writer/editor will have his choice automatically as well.

It only takes enough people to reach 114 years, then you see also people that will get older.

OP is correct, though. Troublesome to see a rather recent publication (2001) giving the wrong advice for such a "standard" disease.

If this would be true, Europeans would have a big interest in implementing this law right now. While some local jobs from Facebook and Google might disappear, large European competitors for those sites would appear that implement the technical possibility to delete this information that you have published before, and creating new jobs and tax income for a state within the EU. Win-win for the Europeans I would say.

You would be able to control the information about yourself, if you would publish it on your Web site (and set the robots.txt to exclude spiders). But if you give it to a "social" web site, you traded it in against the "service". So, basically you sold your information (to not say: you sold your soul).

Should you be able to reclaim your postings/pictures etc.? Yes, you should.
Would reclaiming your postings be against free speech? No.
Would it make "social" web sites more complex to manage and therefore a bit less attractive from a business point of view? Yes, you bet. But since when is this an argument for a law about control of your digital data?

Interesting argument. Why does it always need to be coal, when comparing nuclear power against another energy? Here is the car analogy: if you do not like this new electric car, you will need to use this monster truck, which runs 2 miles per gallon, which is far, far more dirty and dangerous.

Electricity prices in France and Germany are very much political prices. It has very little to do with nuclear power and very much with who subsidizes what (France: Tax payers subsidize nuclear power; Germany: Households (electricity users) subsidizes solar and other renewable energy installments).

Possible in Europe. It was long-time not interesting, because you could not get a contract, which actually removed the subsidies - but this changes currently and see: It's much cheaper to pay full price for your iPhone and then much less for the contract, then to have an subsidized iPhone with an expensive contract. Actually the incumbent wireless carriers in Europe fear those unbundled deals very much the same as the devil the holy water.

Bad analogy. The USPS does not have the contents of the letters that they have delivered to you. FB has.

Worse: If you do not use FB, you know that your friends and family will post personal information about you as well.

Why is there no alternative? FB is not really a required service you depend on.
Email and Internet access probably is a required service, but email is not centralized and monopolized, but using an open standardized protocol, Internet access at the other side is a classical man-in-the-middle problem - that's why ISPs are regulated (and at least in most countries forbidden to do man-in-the-middle actions) - and you can always use SSL and HTTPS to exclude your ISP from overhearing and profiting from your conversations.