Microsoft's default Do Not Track not dead yet

Microsoft's default Do Not Track not dead yet red sole shoes saleThe news sounded bad for Microsoft. Barely six days after the company announced an aggressive stance on blocking advertisers from tracking you in the coming Internet Explorer 10, a new standards draft from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) appeared to kill the plan. Except the new standards for the Do Not Track (DNT) browser header did nothing of the sort. Microsoft's Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch told CNET in a statement, "We are engaged with the W3C, as we are with many international standards bodies. While we respect the W3C's perspective, we believe that a standard should support a privacy by default choice for consumers." For its part, the W3C has acknowledged that the DNT standards draft is just that -- a work-in-progress draft. Aleecia McDonald, a co-chair of the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, wrote in the minutes from the meeting during which the draft was written that, "it will be quite a while be...