Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and acoalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting for Web browsing-"a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity, and incentivize advertisers and data collection companies to respect a user's choice not to be tracked online."